We all love YouTube videos. We all love Homestar Runner. But we don't love it when Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids.
Flash animations and videos are among the top processor hogs on Mac OS X. A single poorly-designed Flash banner - even in an inactive window or tab - can suck up an entire processor core with its shady mortgage offers.
Your 5-hour battery life gets cut in half, your laptop runs hotter, and your legs cook to medium-rare.
FlashFrozen is a very easy to use application designed to deal with this problem. FlashFrozen lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.
In Google Chrome, Firefox 4, and in Safari on 64-bit Macs running Snow Leopard, the Flash plug-in is pushed onto its own process.
FlashFrozen lives as a tiny menu app, monitoring this process and will warn you (by turning red) if Flash is using a relatively significant amount of processor cycles. You can then go to FlashFrozen's menu to kill the Flash plug-in.
Any running Flash content is replaced with the broken plugin icon. Want to get Flash working again? Simply reload the page, or go to a new one. The next time Flash is needed, it'll come back to life.
NOTE: To buy FlashFrozen via the App Store an Apple account is required.
Requirements:
· A 64-bit Intel Mac (pretty much everything made from late 2006 and on)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Newer Chrome (24+) and Chromium-based browsers (Chromium, Chrome Canary, etc) are now properly detected.
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