Did Adobe ever actually make a Flash version that works better on the Air?

[mellofello]

If you recall all the hoopla about battery life last year

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/11/17/adobe-testing-macbook-air-optimized-version-of-flash-player/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/209856/dump_flash_get_2_extra_hours_of_macbook_air_battery_life.html

As any owner of the Air knows Flash is a ravenous destroyer of the battery life. I have been in a situation where I am close to wifi but far from a plug for the past few nights, and this is killing me.

I was wondering if anyone was able to get the beta of the Air Flash, and if so could point me in the right direction. Google just references the articles of yesteryear.

TIA

 

[darngooddesign]

Install Click2Flash, that way flash will only kill you when you want it to.

 

[leftywamumonkey]

If you're watching Youtube videos a lot, you could join their HTML 5 program.

 

[Patriot24]

If you're watching Youtube videos a lot, you could join their HTML 5 program.

About 3 weeks ago I installed Flash Block in Chrome (which has built-in flash capabilities to begin with instead of downloading the plugin) and joined the HTML5 program on Youtube. Since then, I have definitely seen a performance bump and better battery life on my current machine (Lenovo 410).

Both are highly recommended (blocker + html5 program).

 

[Cynicalone]

ClickToFlash is great.

And if you really want to kill the flash you could do what John Gruber did and remove it all together. He apparently installed Chrome for times when you just couldn't avoid using Flash.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome

 

[mellofello]

I was hoping that there was a way to make flash run more efficiently. I am stuck sitting in one place watching hulu without a plug anywhere close by.