Flashless

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Version: 2.0.7 || Release Date: 2011-03-05 || License: Freeware Developer: Useless Coding | App Owner: useless

A WebKit plug-in to display preview images for Flash based video services and block the rest.

Flashless prevents the automatic loading of Flash content.

• Preview video images to instantly get a glimpse of the video.
• Play videos without Flash. With Quicktime you can watch most videos much more resource friendly.
• Download videos from popular video sites. (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Blip.tv, …)
• Remove advertisements with a simple menu command.
• Watch videos on their home site.

Required OS: 10.5
Tags: webkit , plugin , flash , web

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5 Opinions

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by goddll, 3 years and 30 days ago

Flashless emphasizes the video aspect of Flash on the Web. It fetches previews and plays video from popular sites on the Web without loading the Flash player; has whitelisting for use with heavily Flash-reliant domains, and blacklisting for ads.

ClickToFlash emphasizes convenience. It can distinguish and load tiny/hidden flash elements (like sIFR, for Flash fonts and the Flickr uploader) by default, and all the rest with a click; has whitelisting. The project seems to have not been moving forward much lately.

Flashless would supersede ClickToFlash in functionality if the developer implemented a preference to load the Flash player instead of loading the video on popular video sites, and another one for sIFR/tiny Flash elements.

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by colonelpanic, 3 years and 38 days ago (score: 1)

Long-time user of ClickToFlash here. I liked this at first glance, it seemed neater and more elegant than CTF but it doesn't work with the hulu desktop player (which is flash-based) so I had to uninstall it. I did however decide to install the beta version of CTF instead of the stable version, and it's very close to this now.

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by philippgerard, 3 years and 41 days ago (score: 1)

Very well done browser plugin.

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by miknos, 3 years and 42 days ago (score: 1)

After using for a few hours I have the impression this plugin is better than ClicktoFlash.

-Previews are a good addition.
-Videos load nicely. ClicktoFlash many times doesn't load the video properly.

For heavily flash based websites (like nvidia.com or starcraft2.com), clicktoflash seems a better option (because you can whitelist).

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by miknos, 3 years and 42 days ago

Is this better than ClickToFlash?