Do You Use Flash In Your Browser?

[george]

Many websites and streaming media use Flash in their content these days.

Do you have Flash enabled in your browser?

Are you sometimes annoyed with Flash animations on websites?

[webfact]

Yes enabled, but sometimes I am getting very annoyed. Specially when I am not offered a non-flash version on a web site.

But what goes up must come down and a user can disable flash like he can enable it.

Very useful for websites made for Thai customers... most of these websites I know are a flash nightmare!

[raro]

Hi George,

I have flash enabled, but use Flashblocker on FF 3.0 and only open the Flash applications I need.

Generally I think that Flash is one of the biggest annoyances in today's internet and strongly discourage you from putting it on this page if ever possible.

cheers

raro

/edit: as for the poll: is that now flash enabled or disabled? I would call it "flash on demand"

[MJo]

Yep, flash enabled as most of the sites have flash stuff in them. Only annoyance is the flash adds but then again they can be easily blocked in FF.

[Johnxxx]

Hi George,

I have flash enabled, but use Flashblocker on FF 3.0 and only open the Flash applications I need.

cheers

raro

/edit: as for the poll: is that now flash enabled or disabled? I would call it "flash on demand"

Same here. I guess without Flashblock and Adblock Plus I would not use the internet anymore. Just call up some sites - in the background they call endless ad servers and other ad helpers. Okay, they have to make money but often it is too much. The screen is blinking like a disco and the CPU load goes up a lot to enable all this ;-)

[raro]

I guess without Flashblock and Adblock Plus I would not use the internet anymore.

I concur 100%! Flashblock and Adblock Plus are sent from heaven! I just tried Google Chrome for a couple of days and I was amazed how much crap is on an average webpage that is not visible in FF 3.0. Will stick to FF 3.0 and uninstalled Chrome already!

[Crushdepth]

I have it enabled but I have been thinking about turning it off - very annoyed with the constant debugger messages, endless waits for things to load from pathetically slow servers thoughtfully placed in Northern Waziristan and other annoyances.

I guess it has its place but should be used sparingly with due regard for the bandwidth challenged.

[Jdietz]

I have all scripts / flash / crap disabled by default and enable it on a per-case basis.

(http://noscript.net)

Gets rid of all annoying stuff and gets you right to the content you're actually looking for.

[webfact]

I guess without Flashblock and Adblock Plus I would not use the internet anymore.

I concur 100%! Flashblock and Adblock Plus are sent from heaven! I just tried Google Chrome for a couple of days and I was amazed how much crap is on an average webpage that is not visible in FF 3.0. Will stick to FF 3.0 and uninstalled Chrome already!

I agree that these extensions are much needed for Chrome too and I am sure they will be available soon from 3rd party developers.

sorry for an off-top remark...

IMHO Chrome has a much better page rendering than FF2 or FF3 and it is much faster than these browsers.

Chrome reduces resource usage too because it treats tabs as different windows.

[nidge]

I used to block flash using click2flash (for the mac). A large amount of flash is very annoying especially if music is involved.

But now I'm learning web design i switched it back on as it's a pain trying to preview a site with even a tiny flash button. Once I've finished learning I'll block it again.

Nidge

[BigSnake]

No, never have enough junk to deal with already thank you.

[Sunny Valentine]

I am a militant flash hater. Have it enabled, but use flashblocker to a good extent.Whenever I run across a website that demands flash, I think twice whether I really really need to see it ....

[katana]

If you use SpywareBlaster, it also has a built in flash-killer.

[stumonster]

flashblock and noscript

speeds up the experience for those of us without FTTH

[wpcoe]

On my home computer I have flash enabled in Opera, but on my notebook I have it disabled. Actually, there aren't very many sites that I encounter with my notebook that require/recommend Flash.

[Plus]

If a goal is to find whether flash ads will be effective on Thaivisa or not - I'll block them anyway. In these past few days I got rid of that yellow "Breaking news" bar at the top on all my computers.

Most people have flash on, in my experience, this poll is not indicative as only geeks would vote here.

[stumonster]

HTML 5 should address the issues involved with multi OS browser delivery of streaming video.

apart from the annoyances - slow page rendering as the browser retrieves a bloated flash ad from some server in lower antarctica , cpu thrashing to decode the epileptic artistry of marketing droids - it is utilized attack vector for drive by malware.