Did this on my 2008 MacBook, still running Snow Leopard. The speed was immediately noticeable when browsing the web.

I'd recommend it if anyone else has noticed a slow down at all.

I did the setting changes. Now the process monitor on my MBP (Yosemite) shows a bunch of "Google Chrome Helper" not responding in red. Not sure this has saved battery but seems battery goes out even quicker.

I am not him, but on one older Mac, I am running Snow Leopard because it's the last OS X I can run on a 32bit computer.

And yes, I know, it has all the terrible ShellShock bugs and other stuff that will never be fixed, but I just need to run some OS X software time from time and I won't buy a new Mac because of that.

And when I tried to install Linux on that, Wi-fi didn't work properly, and there were some other issues I had with I think rebooting and maybe some other hardware stuff (I know, it sounds like a cliche, but it's true)

I don't feel there are any real benefits in upgrading. It'll just slow down my MacBook even more.

Thanks for the honest reply. I wasn't trying to be judgemental, just trying to understand specific reasons, rather than admit the nebulous cloud of "because".

I still run Tiger on a PowerBook G4.

This is awesome. Flash isn't used for anything anymore, can't wait until this is the default.

Besides ads. And Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Don't hold your breath for that to become the default in Chrome.

And that's pretty much why Google built Google Web Designer[0] - because advertisers are going to want their media to run on all browsers, even ones without Flash.

[0] http://www.google.co.uk/webdesigner/

Google Flash ads are rare, and I'm sure they'd be happy to move away from them entirely in favor of HTML5 technologies.

And this is why we must treasure and keep Flash -- so we can easily block the kinds of people who use it.

Filtering out HTML5 video ads is harder (though if you block everything set to auto play you do OK).

#(though if you block everything set to auto play you do OK)

How do i do this on chrome?

I do all my rewriting with a proxy (in my case glimmer blocker, though I also had to implement my own man-in-the-middle SSL tool to make it work with https connections). I simply rewrite URLs, strip referrer tags, respond with empty files for domains I don't like, and rewrite pages to remove crud. It speeds up my browsing experience immensely and coincidentally improves my privacy somewhat.

I seems brain damaged to me to do it via a browser extension since I use multiple browsers, not to mention other programs that make http/https/ftp connections (e.g. RSS reader, mail reader etc).

It's still the only way to get write access to the clipboard, unfortunately.

In what browser is Flash still required? I've been doing:

    to_clipboard = (text) ->
        textarea = document.getElementById "copy-workaround"
        textarea.value = text
        textarea.select()
        document.execCommand "copy", false, null

In chrome for years.

That code doesn't work (at least in ordinary page scripts), as far as I can tell.

http://jsfiddle.net/vej6vbdt/

You're entirely right, after looking into it a bit, it seems it's blocked now in everything but content pages (which is where I use it)