You know those Flash banner ads? The ones that feature silhouettes of dancing girls hawking mortgage refinancing? Or popups that play audio? Or the classier but mildly bandwidth-hogging corporate videos? While I appreciate that advertising is paying for content creation, it doesn’t erase the fact that a lot of Flash content is really annoying- and it can measurably delay pageload times on my crappy home DSL connection.

But then a colleague at the University turned me on to ClickToFlash, a Safari plugin that not only automatically disables the loading of flash content, it comes with this added little bonus: being able to load H.264 content from YouTube that is normally only sent to iPhone users, while us poor non-mobile Luddites are stuck with much crappier video quality. But no more, thanks to this handy plugin. I’ve been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and love it. If you’re a Safari user, install this bad boy without delay!