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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by zdw on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:33PM (#37228811)
Back in the day there was even a Mac browser plugin called "Click to Flash" that would prevent Flash from loading in web pages and draining battery like crazy. Made the web livable and more secure throwing Flash garbage ads everywhere.

Ah, the dev page for these: https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

People also don't remember the huge number of CVEs that Flash had: https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/53/6761/1/Adobe-Flas...

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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by jwells89 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:19AM (#37231834)
There were also browser extensions that'd replace YouTube's terrible flash player with an HTML5 h.264 player which was a godsend on single-core PPC G4/G5 machines, where flash would happily keep the CPU pegged for no good reason.
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