Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life

The lack of Flash in the new MacBook Air may annoy some users, but it has a big upside, too. According to Wired's report (citing Ars Technica) passed on by an anonymous reader, "Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably — as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the CPU running far more than seemed necessary, and the best time I recorded with Flash installed was just 4 hours. After deleting Flash, however, the MacBook Air ran for 6:02 — with the exact same set of websites reloaded in Safari, and with static ads replacing the CPU-sucking Flash versions."

Comments

Re:No ABP in OSX?

[WrongSizeGlass]

Why would ANYONE use Safari on Mac when you have FF? ABP and NoScript for the win!

Maybe because FF users pay more for car loans?

He said she said?

[Stregano]

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Re:Why not install Flashblock by default

[amicusNYCL]

Why do you even need to install something to do that? That's a checkbox option on my Android phone and my Opera browser. When I discovered that on my phone it sped up the browser quite a bit, just leaving placeholders with push-to-activate buttons where all of the Flash content used to be.