osx - Can you fake flash?

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2014-07
  • Hunter

    I am trying to access sites that are powered by flash, but they keep hitting me with popups that tell me to install flash before I can even do non-flash things. I refuse to use flash,

    Is there a Safari or OS/X plugin/app that can make me appear to be using flash when I'm really not?

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  • Spiff

    Yes, the "Click to Flash" and "Click to Plugin" Safari extensions (and I believe you can still find the versions that work as plug-ins for any browser via the old Netscape plug-in API) pretend to be Flash, but don't actually load Flash until you click inside the grey Flash-replacement rectangle they draw in place of the Flash app.

    See if those meet your needs.

  • Lưu Vĩnh Phúc

    Google Chrome has its own version of flash, and you don't need to install a flash plugin to the OS or other browsers


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  • bpapa

    I have Safari 4.0.2. Ever since I did the upgrade to OSX 10.5.8, it's been crashing several times an hour. After viewing all of my installed plug ins, deleting them, and reinstalling, I have found the Flash plugins to be the culprit.

    The thing is though, Safari has been out for a few days now, and I haven't seen this problem publicized at all. So I'm thinking - "it must be something I'm doing wrong, am I the only one having this problem?"

    One page that crashes for me every time now is espn.com I load the page, it renders, and then after a moment Safari hangs and I get the dreaded beach ball.

    Any other ideas as to how I can clean this up?

    Update - I have now started using clicktoflash as a workaround. But this is only working as a way for me to watch YouTube videos via h.26.4 If I have clicktoflash installed AND the Flash plugin installed at the same time, Safari is crashing everywhere - front page of YouTube, ESPN's homepage, etc.


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  • Diago

    I upgraded to 10.5.8 which includes Safari 4.0.2 and have had no problems with Safari crashing. I suspect you have an addon loaded that may not be happy with Safari 4.

  • Chealion

    You can try installing the latest version of Flash (10.0.32.18) from Adobe to see if that clears it up. You can check what version you have on Adobe's Flash Version Check.

    If that fails you may want to check what Input Managers are installed. Several Safari "plug-ins" are actually implemented using Input Managers (eg. Safari Stand, Glims, Pith Helmet, 1Password, etc.) and tend to be much more fragile during upgrades. (One reason 1Password will always say it won't work whenever a new release of Safari comes out requiring a day delay while they test and release a version that will run on the new version).

    Input Managers can be found at ~/Library/Input Managers/ and /Library/Input Managers/

    It can be noted more as an aside that Flash Player will have it's own sandbox coming in Snow Leopard because of the amount of crashes caused by Flash Player. Personally I use ClickToFlash as a blocker and my anecdotal evidence over the last several months is that Safari is substantially more stable when only running Flash when necessary.

  • bpapa

    This appears to have been fixed in Safari 4.0.3. According to the release notes that they show in Software Update, there was a problem with one of the HTML 5 video tags, so that may have been the problem.