Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Adobe Flash. It’s a CPU hog, a battery hog, and a security threat given how often you have to update it to avoid getting exploited by something. The last time I had a piece of software that was this much of a problem was when I had Java on my system. I dumped that and haven’t looked back since. So I’ve been musing doing the same with Flash. Given that YouTube has recently moved into the HTML5 camp, I decided to take the plunge and dump Adobe Flash. Over the next month, I will document my attempt to get rid of Flash once and for all. Let’s start with actually dumping Flash. Now Adobe does make uninstallers to make dumping Flash easy:
If you’re on a Mac, click here.
If you’re on a PC, click here.
In my case, I followed the instructions for Mac and within two minutes, Flash was gone. Now the question is, is my web surfing experience lacking because I don’t have Flash?
Not so far.
I browsed to my usual websites and found no differences in my web surfing experience. So far, that implies that you don’t need flash to surf the Internet. Now one thing that I did notice is that Safari which according to OS X Yosemite used “significant energy” when I had Flash installed no longer does. Not only that, battery life while running Safari is way over 7 hours which I have never seen on my MacBook Pro before and my CPU usage has dropped so much that it rarely crossed 4%. I guess that proves that everything that Steve Jobs said all those years ago.
This is promising so far.
Check back next week to see how I’m doing and if I am running into any difficulty by not having Adobe Flash on my system.
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Bye Bye Adobe Flash!
Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Adobe Flash. It’s a CPU hog, a battery hog, and a security threat given how often you have to update it to avoid getting exploited by something. The last time I had a piece of software that was this much of a problem was when I had Java on my system. I dumped that and haven’t looked back since. So I’ve been musing doing the same with Flash. Given that YouTube has recently moved into the HTML5 camp, I decided to take the plunge and dump Adobe Flash. Over the next month, I will document my attempt to get rid of Flash once and for all. Let’s start with actually dumping Flash. Now Adobe does make uninstallers to make dumping Flash easy:
If you’re on a Mac, click here.
If you’re on a PC, click here.
In my case, I followed the instructions for Mac and within two minutes, Flash was gone. Now the question is, is my web surfing experience lacking because I don’t have Flash?
Not so far.
I browsed to my usual websites and found no differences in my web surfing experience. So far, that implies that you don’t need flash to surf the Internet. Now one thing that I did notice is that Safari which according to OS X Yosemite used “significant energy” when I had Flash installed no longer does. Not only that, battery life while running Safari is way over 7 hours which I have never seen on my MacBook Pro before and my CPU usage has dropped so much that it rarely crossed 4%. I guess that proves that everything that Steve Jobs said all those years ago.
This is promising so far.
Check back next week to see how I’m doing and if I am running into any difficulty by not having Adobe Flash on my system.
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This entry was posted on February 2, 2015 at 7:36 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Adobe, Flash. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.