Completely Remove Flash Player.

[CPressland]

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

[coresx]

Flash does indeed suck. Best of luck getting your issue sorted. Haven't used Macs enough to know how to get rid of the little things.

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

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Use the Flash Uninstaller, provided by Adobe themselves.

[CPressland]

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 ;)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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.

...

You're joking, right?

[CPressland]

You're joking, right?

Ok, so maybe that WAS a little harsh, but the Firefox Developers huge egos are really slowing down the browsers progress. They ARE falling behind

[LTD]

I have no problems with Flash. But YMMV.

[CPressland]

I have no problems with Flash. But YMMV.

YMMV?

[LiqHead]

^ Your Mileage May Vary ;)

[CPressland]

^ Your Mileage May Vary ;)

I'm still left baffled...

[PL_ Veteran]

I'm still left baffled...

He has no problems. You do. Thus, the mileage is varying.

[OperationBrian]

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)

[L3thal Veteran]

Hmm this answers my question of why my Mac hits 65 Celsius when running any video having to do with flash and goes back down to the low 50's as soon as I close the window.

[ienhz]

Yeah I remember my old Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) MacBook would go slow as hell just browsing youtube.

[CPressland]

It's completely retarded because in both Linux and Windows this dosnt seam to happen. Adobe really need to see how stupid this is making them look.

[CoolBits]

For manual remove check:

/Library/InternetPlugins/

and

~/library/InternetPlugins/

delete all files with flash in filename (probably 2)

[PyX]

You forgot to say you've had enough of flash videos not going fullscreen 50% of the time you ask for it.

[CPressland]

You forgot to say you've had enough of flash videos not going fullscreen 50% of the time you ask for it.

My MacBook is melting before I even get as far as playing the video.