{"id":27378,"date":"2012-04-13T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/the-best-browser-idea-ever.html"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:42:30","slug":"the-best-browser-idea-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/the-best-browser-idea-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The best browser idea EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that may be an exageration but, really, there&#39;s a reason massive number of people run Flashblock on Chrome and Firefox alike.  Not only does Flash chew up resources, slow down pages, and open up security issues, but it&#39;s more of often than not simply annoying to have Flash stuff showing up on the page and autorunning.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2012\/04\/mozilla-may-make-flash-click-to-play-by-default-in-future-firefox.ars?clicked=related_right'>Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFirefox is testing out a new feature that would allow users to block and then selectively permit Flash plugins.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that may be an exageration but, really, there&#39;s a reason massive number of people run Flashblock on Chrome and Firefox alike. Not only does Flash chew up resources, slow down pages, and open up security issues, but it&#39;s more of often than not simply annoying to have Flash stuff showing up on the page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/the-best-browser-idea-ever.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best browser idea EVER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25408,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/an-interesting-perspective-on-chrome-and-firefox.html","url_meta":{"origin":27378,"position":0},"title":"An interesting perspective on Chrome and Firefox","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jan-12 11:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If Google is competing in the browser market it Chrome, then why is it signing big-money agreements with Mozilla\/Firefox? 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