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Hey Adobe; get your Flash together
Flash sucks! Really! It crashes my Firefox all too often (every few days, especially when behind our company proxy) and playing Flash movies consumes way too much CPU-power for my liking. Apparently Mozilla and Adobe are blaming each other with regard to some of these problems, but this really seems to be a Flash-issue;
- The problem (flash crashing) exists in Google Chrome as well, but thanks to Chrome’s isolated processes, it doesn’t freeze the browser, you’ll see the “sad plugin” instead of the swf-movie.
- Chrome’s task manager also clearly demonstrates the excessive CPU-usage of the Flash-plugin when playing an FLV-file (think youtube, dailymotion, …)
- The crashing problem is supposed to be gone in Flash 10 beta, so it seems Flash 9 specific
Moreover, I found a great howto on “Bort’s w3bl0g” about how to wrap Flash inside NSPluginWrapper in (Ubuntu) Linux, isolating Firefox from Flash-crashes. I’ll try that over the weekend, but it sure looks great!
But anyway; Adobe, get your shit together!
