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OF THE MANY problems that exist on the web, Flash is the one that just won’t seem to die. Brought in back in the 90s as a way to play multimedia content, it’s now become a vulnerability for browsers thanks to security issues, bugs and other issues.
And if your browser crashes or slows down every so often, it’s probably the reason.
There aren’t many reasons to keep it as it’s been phased out. iOS and Android don’t support it, Google and Mozilla both said they would drop default support for it and many sites use HTML5 as its default video format instead of Flash.
Granted, some sites do require Flash to run videos so if you really need to watch it, there’s no other way round it than to reactivate it.
If you want to have the best of both worlds, you could change your browser settings so it asks you when to run Flash, but for most people, it’s probably unnecessary to have it running in the first place. Here’s how to disable it entirely.
Chrome
Type in chrome://plugins to bring up the plugins page. It is one of the four options available here so click ‘disable’ underneath Flash and exit.
Firefox
By going into the open menu (top right-hand corner), click on ‘Add-ons’ and look for Shockwave Flash. Here you can choose to disable it entirely or for it to ask you to activate when it appears.
Safari
In the browser, click on preferences and go into Security. In this section, you will see a plug-in settings option below. Click on it and in the ‘When visiting other websites’ section, change it to block.
Microsoft Edge
Much like Chrome, Microsoft Edge has its own setting for Flash. To disable it, go to the menu and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom and select View advanced settings. Once that’s done, turn the Use Adobe Flash Player option off.
Internet Explorer
Go to the options menu (cog icon) and click manage add-ons. Here, right-click on Shockwave Flash and click disable. If the option doesn’t show up, change ‘show currently loaded add-ons’ to ‘show all add-ons’.
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Strong Laws to protect company’s.
Weak laws for the consumer.
Big thanks to “our”government.
Always got their voters interests at heart.
@Dave Walsh: of course if the government tries to regulate companies better it gets accused of being a nanny state.
It can’t win.
@Barry Somers: say that to the thousands of customers left out of pocket every year,when company’s fail and there owners just move on.No recriminations.
Ya, thats one website I won’t be clicking on.
@Luke Sharpish:
No pun intended.
Very good reporting.
A toxic site sure who in their mind would want it or use it.
The guy behind this site has a new business set up already. Be warned.
Id put any money that this is still the same crowd running it, as Declan said and ive checked myself that the Whois is the same as it was before going broke. If this was a different group they’d have removed Cantec straight away.
@Mark McDermott: so they bought the domain from themselves?
Any info about the sale of the domain? According to whois, Cantec are still have the rights to the domain:
Domain: click.ie
Domain Holder: Cantec North East Ltd
Registration Date: 25-April-2000
Renewal Date: 30-June-2019
Smelling of Dead rat me thinks
The same people have bought this again. They also have 3 stores now.
Click Bait
Won’t click on that, no pin intended.
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