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Websites that heavily use Flash suffer from loss of web browser standard functionality. Some Flash designers use meta refreshes or other tricks to disable browser’s Back button. As the famous usability expert Jacob Nielsen says, ‘Back button is the second most important navigation element after hyperlinks’.Websites that heavily use Flash suffer from loss of web browser standard functionality. Some Flash designers use meta refreshes or other tricks to disable browser’s Back button. As the famous usability expert Jacob Nielsen says, ‘Back button is the second most important navigation element after hyperlinks’. Flash also negatively impacts things like selecting text, scrollbars, form control and right-clicking, making these act differently than with a regular HTML webpage. Mouse wheel scrolling is impacted by the presence of Flash on a web page. In many browsers, it is not possible to scroll a web page with the mouse while the cursor is held over flash content. Scrolling with the arrow keys may require a click on the page outside the flash. In Windows, Shockwave/Flash (.swf) files cannot be right-clicked and saved. Greedy companies use this as a way to limit access to information on the Internet, thus placing speed bumps on the Information Superhighway. On photo sharing websites such as Webshots, a Flash overlay exists over the initial photo displayed, requiring a second click to retrieve the photo, slowing the experience considerably. Flash can be used to store data about you when you browse the web, much like cookies, but much more secretly and extensively. You can easily clear your browser cookies, but the data Flash saves can be hard to locate, if not impossible for most users. The issue of insanely poor security in the Flash Player is a subject matter all on its own.