ClickToFlash Behaving Oddly
Posted March 9th, 2010 @ 10:04pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I've disabled ClickToFlash because it's been behaving oddly lately (and development seems to have come to a standstill).
I'll often attempt to display a YouTube video, and a movie file will download. Whitelisting sites doesn't always work, and sometimes I spend five minutes just trying to get a flash movie to play in Flash instead of downloading a movie or display a white box where the movie should be (long bug discussion here - 1.6b7 linked here).
Will cross my fingers and, occasionally, re-enable. It's the easiest way to download the movies from YouTube (though I have a JavaScript bookmarklet that does it too).
P.S. And I'll try 1.6b7 as soon as I can tolerate a re-start of Safari.
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Posted 13 Mar 2010 at 11:09pm #
Which Javascript bookmarklet do you use? I've been looking for one that works well. I've had similar problems with ClickToFlash myself, randomly downloading videos on tabs I open in the background.
Posted 13 Mar 2010 at 11:33pm #
[quote comment="57346"]Which Javascript bookmarklet do you use?[/quote]
One that doesn't seem to work any longer, now that I've tried it out:
javascript:if%20(document.getElementById('download-youtube-video')==null%20&&%20!!(document.location.href.match(/http:%5C/%5C/%5Ba-zA-Z%5C.%5D*youtube%5C.com%5C/watch/)))%20%7Bvar%20yt_mp4_path='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id='+swfArgs%5B'video_id'%5D+'&t='+swfArgs%5B't'%5D;%20var%20div_embed=document.getElementById('watch-embed-div');div_embed.innerHTML=div_embed.innerHTML+'%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cspan%20id=%5C'download-youtube-video%5C'%3E%3Ca%20href=%5C''+yt_mp4_path+'%5C'%3EDownload%20as%20MP4%3C/a%3E%20'+%20%20((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari')!=-1)?'(control-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3EDownload%20linked%20file%20as%3C/i%3E)':('(right-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3ESave%20'+%20(navigator.appName=='Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer'?'target':'link')%20+'%20as)%3C/i%3E'))+'%3C/span%3E';%7Dvoid(0);
Incidentally, I'm still seeing the "download when I don't want it to" behavior with 1.6b7 too. 😛