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How long can you last without flash enabled on your laptop?
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Now that you mention it I'm kind of interested to see how long I can last without it and I'm going to uninstall it and see how long I can last without it. The main thing I use with flash is youtube but if I was on the iPad I would have the youtube app. On my laptop, I can switch to html5 on youtube although some videos are flash only on youtube.
It's not totally the fact that you can't see them anymore, but also that they aren't being loaded in the first place, which makes the page loading and rendering a lot faster.
I just started using Click2flash yesterday and I found out that I can easily get by with no flash whatsoever. The main sites I visit don't have flash (except for ads) and in fact it seems like over 90% of the flash I used to see was all in ad form.
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It makes the page slower and can cause errors which will resort to the browser crashing
Since I started using Click2Flash about a year ago, I have not had one browser crash.
It's not so much about the Ads themselves bothering me, it's about having a cleaner surfing experience. My pages render faster, I don't have obtrusive "interactive" ads that start making noise when I mouse over them. No ads that pop over my content. There's a million reasons why I'm glad the adds are gone, the least of which is that they happen to be ads.
I actually experimented with not using flash to see how much I actually use it. The only area I notice a difference is watching embedded videos, which are almost always encoded for flash. So if I go to most news sites and they have a video I want to watch, it won't work without flash. That's the main problem with not having flash on the ipad, you'd be crippled in watching video.
Also, internet games almost always use flash. Yet, I think most popular internet games will be ported to iphone specific apps. Already mafia wars and livepoker have iphone apps. I don't see why Zynga wouldn't port farmville to an iphone app, since its currently very popular. I would suspect most other game creators to do the same, especially if the ipad becomes as successful as the iphone has been.
So, personally I can do without flash, but am crippled a bit in terms of video mainly. I hope sites start moving towards non-flash video, but until then its a definite problem having no flash. You are getting a different internet experience than anyone else who is using a real computer. Yet, it still won't stop me from buying an ipad!
Also, internet games almost always use flash. Yet, I think most popular internet games will be ported to iphone specific apps. Already mafia wars and livepoker have iphone apps. I don't see why Zynga wouldn't port farmville to an iphone app, since its currently very popular. I would suspect most other game creators to do the same, especially if the ipad becomes as successful as the iphone has been.
So, personally I can do without flash, but am crippled a bit in terms of video mainly. I hope sites start moving towards non-flash video, but until then its a definite problem having no flash. You are getting a different internet experience than anyone else who is using a real computer. Yet, it still won't stop me from buying an ipad!
The only things I use flash for these days are youtube and.... actually, just youtube. As that's supported on the iPad it really doesn't bother me not havng flash support.
Bear in mind that Hulu is a US-only service so what's commonly cited as a big driver for Flash isn't available for the majority of web users. Here in the good ol' UK the BBC makes its programming available through iPlayer which works perfectly on the iPod Touch so that's not an issue for us.
So to answer the question it's been over a year and I can't think of a time when I've had to enable flash outside of YouTube.
Serious question though, is this even really an issue at the moment? Right now the iPad isn't a standalone computer - you still need a desktop or laptop to sync to iTunes and install software updates at the very least. Knowing that is the case, unless there's a specific site that you KNOW you vist that needs flash, would you not be just as happy browsing on the iPad and, on the rare occasions when you need Flash access just popping over to the sync computer and using that? No, it's not an ideal situation but I do think this is being blown out of all proportion by a very vocal minority at the moment.
Bear in mind that Hulu is a US-only service so what's commonly cited as a big driver for Flash isn't available for the majority of web users. Here in the good ol' UK the BBC makes its programming available through iPlayer which works perfectly on the iPod Touch so that's not an issue for us.
So to answer the question it's been over a year and I can't think of a time when I've had to enable flash outside of YouTube.
Serious question though, is this even really an issue at the moment? Right now the iPad isn't a standalone computer - you still need a desktop or laptop to sync to iTunes and install software updates at the very least. Knowing that is the case, unless there's a specific site that you KNOW you vist that needs flash, would you not be just as happy browsing on the iPad and, on the rare occasions when you need Flash access just popping over to the sync computer and using that? No, it's not an ideal situation but I do think this is being blown out of all proportion by a very vocal minority at the moment.
I can easily live without flash. In fact I have used ClickToFlash for ages and don't ever remember clicking to run the flash!
I *prefer* not having flash on the iPhone. Imagine how slow the mobile browsing would be if it loaded 400k ads on every page you went to!
I *prefer* not having flash on the iPhone. Imagine how slow the mobile browsing would be if it loaded 400k ads on every page you went to!