Whether you wish to conserve electricity, silence overactive cooling fans, boost the security of your browsing experience or protest against the use of media plug-ins, you can easily remove Adobe Flash from your Mac. Personally, my MacBook often sounds like it's preparing for space flight when I visit pages that use Adobe's plug-in. In the ensuing brouhaha, Ars Technica discovered Flash cut battery life by up to 33 percent on the MacBook Air and possibly other MacBook models.
Back in October, Apple shipped its first MacBook Air models without the Adobe Flash plug-in pre-installed.
