How to Set Adobe Flash Player to Click-to-Run

Adobe Flash Player, too known past its erstwhile name Shockwave Flash Player, is a multimedia plug-in that powers YouTube, uncomplicated online games and zillions of ads on near Web browsers. However, it's as well a huge security risk, especially when it'due south set to automatically get-go playing compatible content.

To maximize your Web security and defeat the seemingly endless supply of malware that exploits the innumerable flaws in Wink Role player, you should change your browser settings and then that Wink Histrion plays only the content that you select by clicking on it.

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This way, you'll notwithstanding be able to watch YouTube videos in older browsers (newer ones employ HTML5), but y'all won't exist bothered by abrasive blithe ads or infected by malicious websites and ads.

How to set up Flash to click-to-run in Mozilla Firefox

1. Click the three stacked lines in the upper right of the Firefox browser window.

2. Click Add together-ons in the resulting drop-down menu.

3. Set Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Player and/or Shockwave Wink to Inquire to Activate.

How to set Flash to click-to-run in Google Chrome

1. Click the iii stacked lines in the upper correct of the Chrome browser window.

2. Click Settings.

iii. Curl down and click Show advanced settings.

iv. Curl down to the Privacy section and click Content settings.

5. In the resulting popular-upwardly, scroll downward to Plug-ins and select Click to play.

How to set Flash to click-to-run in Microsoft Net Explorer

one. Click the gear icon in the top correct corner of the Internet Explorer browser window (the one just beneath the red X, not the ane on the Net Explorer homepage).

2. Select Manage add-ons.

three. Select Toolbars and Extensions in the left navigation window of the resulting pop-up.

4. Find Shockwave Flash Object in the correct results window. If you don't see it right away, make sure the drop-downwards box labeled Testify is ready to " All add-ons."

5. Correct-click Shockwave Flash Object and click More Information.

half dozen. Click Remove all sites in the resulting pop-upwardly window. It's underneath the big course field labeled "Y'all accept approved this add-on to run on the following websites." The field may brandish an asterisk; you desire that asterisk gone.

How to set Flash to click-to-run in Apple Safari

1. Click the Safari card in the top left of the computer screen.

two. Select Preferences.

3. Click the Security tab in the pop-upwards window.

4. Click Manage Website Settings.

5. Select Adobe Flash Histrion in the left-hand navigation window.

6. Clear the field labeled "Permit websites to use this plug-in with the settings beneath" in the right-manus results window past closing out the browser window behind the pop-upwardly (by pressing the ruby-red button in the upper left-hand corner).

vii. Gear up the drop-down pick next to "When visiting other websites" to "Enquire."

Jill Scharr is a staff writer for Tom's Guide, where she regularly covers security, 3D printing and video games. Yous can follow Jill on Twitter @JillScharr and on Google+ . Follow us @tomsguide, on Facebook and on Google+.

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