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Flash on Safari: Enable on Demand?

Michael Goff

Michael Goff

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Is there any way I can get this beyond the ClicktoPlugin extension?

Edit: Preferably without extensions in general.
 
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In Safari v7, you can manage plug-ins on a site-by-site basis in preferences, under the Security tab.

A.
 
Alrescha said:
In Safari v7, you can manage plug-ins on a site-by-site basis in preferences, under the Security tab.

A.
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Yes, but that's a binary yes or no. I either have all the plugins or none of them. There is no "ask each time", and it has to reload the page every time even if there was one.
 
This way perhaps:

Click on Manage Website settings.
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Choose the setting for Flash as required.
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Dave Braine said:
This way perhaps:

Click on Manage Website settings.
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Choose the setting for Flash as required.
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Once again, my point is missed. It is either an allow all for a website or allow none for a website. There is no putting up a dozen tabs of YouTube and then choosing to let them use flash one at a time without then having to reset the 'ask' option every time I open the browser.
 
Why don't you want to use an extension. Safari doesn't do what you want by default. But because Safari supports extensions, people can and have written extensions that do exactly what you want.
 
jdechko said:
Why don't you want to use an extension. Safari doesn't do what you want by default. But because Safari supports extensions, people can and have written extensions that do exactly what you want.
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Because on every platform I've ever used extensions on, it made the browser slower. Also, I know that ClicktoFlash also automatically turns it to html5 and then skips ads on YouTube. That's not something I agree with.
 
Michael Goff said:
Because on every platform I've ever used extensions on, it made the browser slower. Also, I know that ClicktoFlash also automatically turns it to html5 and then skips ads on YouTube. That's not something I agree with.
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Fair enough.

Have you thought about some scripting that will allow you to open the current page in Chrome? It's a set up that I use. I don't have flash installed on my machine, but I have Chrome installed for pages requiring flash.

I use Alfred and an Alfred workflow to open the current Safari tab in Chrome. You could probably write or find a script to do the same thing.
 
jdechko said:
Fair enough.

Have you thought about some scripting that will allow you to open the current page in Chrome? It's a set up that I use. I don't have flash installed on my machine, but I have Chrome installed for pages requiring flash.

I use Alfred and an Alfred workflow to open the current Safari tab in Chrome. You could probably write or find a script to do the same thing.
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I have banished Chrome from my system. Not because of security, but because their implementation of Flash sucks up CPU and RAM. It is just plain terrible.
 
Michael Goff said:
Once again, my point is missed. It is either an allow all for a website or allow none for a website. There is no putting up a dozen tabs of YouTube and then choosing to let them use flash one at a time without then having to reset the 'ask' option every time I open the browser.
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Are you sure? It looks like I could change MacRumors (for example) to "Ask" and set other sites to "Allow" or "Block." Try opening up all of your tabs and THEN check the settings that Dave suggested.
 

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Pharmscott said:
Are you sure? It looks like I could change MacRumors (for example) to "Ask" and set other sites to "Allow" or "Block." Try opening up all of your tabs and THEN check the settings that Dave suggested.
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I have, unless it's a bug on my case. It asks once and then keeps the setting. I either allow forever, don't allow forever, or don't allow this one time. Those are the three options. So I guess I can disallow it a few times without it being a forever on option. But when you allow it, you allow it all on the website.
 
Slightly off topic I know, but any chance of some details on this Alfred extension? I too want flash generally away from safari but still want use of online video every now and then.
 
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