Jeff Campbell
11-05-2010, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://gigaom.com/apple/flash-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-macbook-air-battery/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheAppleBlog+(GigaOM:+Apple)' target='_blank'>http://gigaom.com/apple/flash-sucki...(GigaOM:+Apple)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Steve Jobs has repeatedly insisted that Flash is a resource-hog. A review of the 11-inch MacBook Air conducted by Ars Technica shows he's quite right. The new Air shows a drop in battery life with Flash installed, at a cost of around two hours of use."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1288976795.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 150px;" /></p><p>Losing about a third of your battery life to Flash is annoying, but you can just install ClickToFlash and solve that problem. Or you can use <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome" target="_blank">this fix from Daring Fireball</a> to avoid Flash issues. It appears a bit is needed to initially set it up but it does solve the problem of having Flash running in the background. How do you work around Flash, or do you?</p>