Marc Hoyois is my new hero.

Safari 5.1 has a different plugin model than previous versions, and has totally broken the one thing I install on my systems that could be considered a Haxie: Click2Flash. Click2Flash gets in-between the browser and the Flash plugin, and prevents it from loading until the user clicks on the Flash object embedded in the web page. This keeps a lot of irritating stuff from auto-starting (hello talking ads!), and keeps my browser performance from sucking too badly.

Marc has released a Safari Extension that does much the same thing as the old plugin, and he has appropriately named it Click2Plugin. Marc, you rock my world. Thank you.