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If that’s the case, follow the steps below. If the app you want to delete doesn’t have a delete button, then that app can’t be removed with LaunchPad.

Find the program you want to delete, and tap the Delete button (it looks like an X).

Click and hold any app until all of the icons start shaking.

Click the Launchpad icon on the dock (it’s a spaceship).

To uninstall apps you got from the App Store, you’ll need to use Launchpad. The process is slightly different for apps you downloaded from the internet and those you got from the App Store. Never fear - uninstalling an app from macOS is a simple process that takes just a few seconds.

I made a folder called “Internet Plug-Ins Disabled”.We’ve all been there: you downloaded Evernote or Gimp or Microsoft Office because you thought it might be fun - useful, even - but you didn’t end up using it, something better came out, or you’ve just gotten bored and it’s time for it to go. If you want to do as I do, quit Safari, and move ClickToFlash, Flash ugin, flashplayer.xpt, and NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave from those folders to somewhere else.

This means disabling Flash, and the ClickToFlash plugins so that your browser signals to the web server that there is no Flash on your system. And, surprisingly, almost every website has alternatives for Flash provided your web browser has no flash installed. But the security concerns and the CPU problems mean it’s not a good product at the end of the day. If Flash worked properly, I’d be happy to use it. Chrome has it’s own version of Flash as part of the binary, and while it’s probably insecure, the intentional shift reduces the risk of a driveby zero day attack on your system. However, for those absolutely must have, no other choice, then you can use Google Chrome browser for those websites. Because Flash isn’t installed most websites will switch to alternate content / menu / etc because they have fallbacks configured. I’ve been running this for a few days and really haven’t found any problems. What if you need Flash for a specific website ? Use this plugin to tell Youtube to displays all video content using HTML5 codecs. This is because the ClickToFlash plugin tells web servers that a flash plugin is available, but then disables the plugin from running and displays the grey box for you to click. Make sure that you remove the ClickToFlash plugin as well. move ClickToFlash, Flash ugin, flashplayer.xpt, and NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave to a temporary directory.

Go to the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins and (Home)/Library/Internet Plug-Ins directories.

#HOW TO REMOVE FLASH FROM MAC OSX HOW TO#

Stay tuned for tips on how to live without it. So the solution is to remove Adobe Flash.

One of the reasons I switched to Mac was to get away from the fear that my OS was compromised (a major concern on MS Windows) and the fact that Flash has a new and major vulnerability every week isn’t acceptable. There is another zero day announced today and being exploited in the wild. security vulnerabilities occur about as often as Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities (all the time).

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It doesn’t automatically update when new versions are avialable.

it causes CPU spikes over 70% when running causing problems with other apps.

I’m not really going to into guessing why it’s so broken but there are three major problems for me personally:

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If there is one piece of software that really causes me grief on my (pretty shiny thing) Macbook then it’s Adobe Flash.

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