Stop websites from draining your battery
Posted by Luke Cowell on July 02, 2008 at 07:18 AM
Sites that incorporate flash are often draining your battery. You can disable flash from automatically loading using safari stand.
- Install Safari Stand: http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
- Go under the Stand menu
- Choose SafariStand Setting...
- click on advanced
- check load Plug-in manually in the flash section
- restart safari
Unless you're one of those people who browse with your activity monitor open, you're probably not aware that many sites are sucking your battery dry. Many sites incorporate flash, in particular to display annoying advertisements. These little flash tidbits are often poorly written and will make your CPU work really hard, which will drain your battery. Now when your browser encounters flash, you can click the box where the flash would have been to load it.
You can also add exceptions to the site alteration area. For example, you might want to let flash automatically load in if you were at youtube.com.
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In Firefox, you can install the Preferences Toolbar that lets you turn off Flash at the click of a button.
There's also the "Flash Cookies" privacy issue. On Linux, I simply type rm -rf ~/.macromedia && touch ~/.macromedia to remove the .macromedia directory and prevent recreation.
Thanks for the post.
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