Firefox 39.03 and adobe flash question.

[William Gaatjes]

Hi , i noticed something odd.
I have the flash plugin set to ask before activate.

I notice that on some sites, i see a enable flash option where a flash video might be. But i noticed on other sites that have animations, that the animation is executed anyway even if i did not allowed firefox to load the site with flash enabled. When i do allow flash content, the animation stops and is reloaded. But it is the same animation.

Why is this ?
Is this a limitation ?
I would expect anything flash to be blocked until i allow it.
But that does not seem to be the case.

 

[lxskllr]

Is the working animation Flash? It doesn't have to be.

 

[Ketchup]

Probably HTML5, which is what Flash should die to.

 

[nemesismk2]

i would like to see the end of adobe flash

 

[William Gaatjes]

I noticed something interesting when watching youtube with flash enabled and with flash disabled.

Some youtube video clips or songs, have deliberate clicks in them to prevent copying. That is not what i mean.
When flash is enabled, i sometimes here short clicks in the songs. When i stop the song and play it again these clicks are gone or present at another time in the song or clip.
I can even see it with audacity.
Often when stopping the song and playing it again, a click can be heard at the beginning.
I have firefox set to disable flash on the youtube site. So i can safely assume html5 is used in stead. And up to date, i have not noticed the clicks in the sound anymore.

 

[lxskllr]

I've never noticed clicks in Youtube music, and I don't use Flash. I think you have something else going on there.

 

[ninaholic37]

On a sidenote, I found this interesting in Youtube's Terms of Service:

5B. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.

So this is why some Downloaders put a download button on the page itself? Heh. For anything over 10 minutes I download it, because it runs much smoother than in the browser and won't hang the whole browser when memory gets tight.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I've never noticed clicks in Youtube music, and I don't use Flash. I think you have something else going on there.

Well, that is the point. Without flash i also have not seen or heard it anymore unless it was put in the audio data deliberately. I think to prevent copying. Another idea is if a bootleg version appears, and there is a small click at 35 seconds, it can be traced back to a certain youtube account. Like a auditive watermark. Even when you do an analog copy, the click will remain.
Other options are a case of bad mp3 coding or a 0dB limit that was crossed.

I have noticed it with different pc systems.
It is not real loud, a bit soft unless it is a 0dB limit crossing. Then it is loud.
I noticed that it happens more often when youtube is a bit slow on the loading side and using flash.