This was possible using SafariStand for a long time already. This is now a plugin and not an InputManager (which is layed on unstable ground (as Apple wants to disable them in the next OS X version)).

The killer feature (and what sets it apart from SafariStand) actually is the whitelist. Option-click a Flash object and you can tell it to always load all flash on the current domain. Sweet!

Essential tool. If you use Firefox and want something like this, http://flashblock.mozdev.org

And for opera: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

Wolf's awesome. Have his blog in my RSS feed and he always delivers quality info: http://rentzsch.com/

I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. On one end, it's awesome for audio & video and on the other hand, it has such a shitty implementation on a Mac. It takes 40% of CPU just to decode a video stream which installed video clients can do in less than 10%. (Incidentally, ever since Adobe purchased Macromedia, quality of Adobe's stuff has been going down.)

Flash also uses the old Netscape plugin architecture which has a horribly inefficient input & rendering loop that causes even background tabs to use a lot of CPU.

Yes he is.

Even worse, flash ignores its z-order on my box (firefox/solaris x86). Turns out lots of sites have flash on the front page, with dropdown menus above it.... ugh.

That's actually the fault of the developer for choosing a wmode which doesn't support z-sorting. Flash has no problem hiding behind HTML content.

Setting wmode to transparent/opaque exposes some Flash Player bugs tho (non-US keyboards print only US characters).

can't upvote this enough.

Yep, I’m happy I found it, too. You want to look after your "shameless plug" on http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/. The link goes to broadersheet.com (w/o "www") which fails.

thats weird. If you go to http://broadersheet.com/ it works for me?

Nope, not even a ping here. I’m using OpenDNS, seems like an issue on their side.

While OpenDNS is neither Open nor DNS (by default), they aren't fucking anything up in this instance.

strange. I'll have to ensure my DNS is setup. Lots of my users will probably use OpenDNS - will do some reading! :)

It displays a grey box. Flash content is loaded on click. (works only with webkit browsers)

It works! CPU load is way lower.

I always loved Flashblock for Firefox not so much to save bandwidth/CPU, but to make sure that wherever I go, jackasses can't spam me with retarded videos and annoying background music.