Some sites automatically play Flash videos which can be annoying, troublesome at work and suck up bandwidth. The Chrome extension FlashControl stops Adobe Flash from loading unless you have authorised a particular site to bypass the restriction. More »
Version 11 of Flash Player hasn’t been showing off its new features all that long, but TechAU reports that version 11.2 offers an even more welcome improvement: automatic updates, so you don’t face Flash update dialogues in an endless wave. Really can’t come soon enough, and you can grab the beta here. [TechAU]
Windows 8 is bringing a very tablet-y Metro interface to machines next year, and it looks like they’re following in the footsteps of other tablet manufacturers in excluding Flash from their browser. More »
Dear Lifehacker, I wanted to know if there was a way to stop all the annoying Acrobat Reader and Flash updates on Windows. It seems every day there is a new update! Thanks, Flash Forward More »
Flash support is part of Android’s appeal, but Flash doesn’t always work on older or less grunty Android phones such as the Huawei Ideos. The Skyfire browser is one potential alternative, but what if your preferred video site won’t play nice with it? Reader Stephen shares a trick for accessing some Flash-based video using Skyfire. More »
