Flash brings down mac OS in a spectacular way. It can slow down mac systems if you have flash open for awhile. Flash developers (reportedly) have refused to fix some of the memory leaks which degrades performance.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
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le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 8:01:27 am PDT #13458 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2010 8:20:27 am PDT #13459 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Really? I did not know that. I thought macs were invulnerable. (I've never owned one.) Well, in that case, Flash is probably right out.
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 8:33:29 am PDT #13460 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I don't really know this personally, except for the serious slowdown Firefox experiences after awhile.
Tom Scola - Apr 04, 2010 8:42:37 am PDT #13461 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I installed ClickToFlash on my Mac. I rarely need to turn flash on. I'm mostly glad to be rid of the annoying ads.
NoiseDesign - Apr 04, 2010 9:11:28 am PDT #13462 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Flash is not the best written nit of code. There are some much better ways to do video in web browsers and Apple is once again trying to force the issue and get the market to move to a new standard. Also Flash is controlled closely by Adobe and Apple doesn't like being beholden to another company.
amych - Apr 04, 2010 9:25:58 am PDT #13463 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, Flash is non-starter -- there's a whole little dance that's been going on since the first iPhone announcement that goes roughly like:
Tech Bloggers With No Actual Access To Information: It would be cool if it had every one on this whole list of features that Apple totally never said it was going to have. Like Flash!
Apple: We're never going to do Flash
Techbloggers: Apple is brilliant and godlike! Of course they'd never shoot themselves in the foot businesswise by releasing a device without Flash.
Apple: We're never going to do Flash
Techbloggers: Hey, watch me bump my hit count by starting a totally unfounded rumor that they're finally going to do Flash!
Apple: We're never going to do Flash
Techbloggers: OMG! I can't believe it has no Flash! I have this whole list of features that it really needs to have or else the device will suck!
Apple:
t rakes in money from techbloggers
A camera is a matter of time. Flash just ain't gonna happen; it's not about it being something that they couldn't make work for the first release - they're seriously committed to making Flash not be the dominant thing it used to be, and they've been succeeding at it ever since they got YouTube on the non-Flash bandwagon with the first release. They have no reason to want to do it now.
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2010 9:31:37 am PDT #13464 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
So, you're saying, no Flash, then?
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 9:42:13 am PDT #13465 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hahaha.
Typo Boy - Apr 04, 2010 9:44:24 am PDT #13466 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not just iphone or ipad that doesn't have flash. As of some time ago, NO phone had flash. Has that changed? Are there now phones with flash? Quite frankly I'd be thrilled if flash died. As ND says there is nothing you can do with flash you can't do with programs that work better. And I hate sites that use flash for text and menus and anything but video. And I dislike flash even for video and slide shows, but if that was all it was used for would dislike rather than hate it.
sumi - Apr 04, 2010 9:44:42 am PDT #13467 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
hee.
But I'm so glad to see that my ridiculous problems keeping my browsers running are not solely my own problem.