Completely Remove Flash Player.


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Hey guys wassup?

I've finally had enough with Flash on my Mac and it driving my processor to 70-140% use.

I've finally had enough of going to an innocent website and having my legs chargrilled by the intense heat of the Core2Duo Processor displaying a simple ad.

I've finally had enough of Flash being able to play sound and me not being able to stop it.

I just want to remove flash completely, I've had a look in /library/ and ~/library/ but found nothing.

Can someone point me where I have to go to delete the *******

Thanks guys

O.S. 10.5.5

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But, use Firefox with "adblock plus" and going further "no script". That should quell your issues until Adobe get their finger out.

Good suggestion but I really cant go back to Firefox, I've tried so many times. It used to be my favourite browser but after using Safari and Google Chrome for so long it's not even an option. It's slow, bulky, has a horrible UI and it's rendering engine is falling behind even that of IE8 beta so of course it cant even begin to touch WebKit.

From what I understand AdBlocking is against Neowins rules so I wont bring that up.

Use the Flash Uninstaller, provided by Adobe themselves.

And now I feel like an ass ;)

Good suggestion but I really cant go back to Firefox, I've tried so many times. It used to be my favourite browser but after using Safari and Google Chrome for so long it's not even an option. It's slow, bulky, has a horrible UI and it's rendering engine is falling behind even that of IE8 beta so of course it cant even begin to touch WebKit.

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You're joking, right?

I have found that the new version of Flash (v10) does improve the Mac Flash experience. It is still not 100% but YouTube and some other flash pages do not use as much CPU any more and the fans do not kick in. Some sites still do, some don't. So once again, YMMV. (My specs: Early '08 white MacBook, 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, OS X 10.5.5, Safari 3.2.1, latest release of Flash 10)

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