Interesting find. So I went to youtube and had a few videos open in a few windows with both Safari and Firefox 4. Safari crashed 2 times and Firefox is still running fine.
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Is that how you spell Firefox in your native tongue or was that just a bad insult thrown at a very good piece of software you just don't happen to like in your little subjective way ?
I have noticed the same thing.
If Flash wouldn't make my fans spin at 100% and turn my MacBook into a hotplate, I wouldn't mind it. Thankfully there are plug-ins for Safari like ClickToFlash which force Safari to only load Flash when I want it to.
well, after the update, the first Flash bit I ran across on the web caused the fans on my MBP to spool up to the point where they sounded like a jet engine. 
Oh well. I guess I'll keep using click-2-flash to block this nonsense from happening again.
Oh well. I guess I'll keep using click-2-flash to block this nonsense from happening again.
Same here. HTML5 just isn't as "snappy" but the fans kicking up are annoying at times. I think the flash hatred is very short sighted. I think the problem has to do with Safari #1, Coders #2, and Apple/Adobes working relationship regardless of who's at fault.
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Chrome doesn't crash with Flash?
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0d782f19a7a1a9ec&hl=en
On PCs and Macs, with IE Safari Chrome, I have seen crashes where the whole browser just quits when running Flash videos.
Sorry, but i simply don't believe that "...Chrome has none of that..."
This is nice but have they got it working on mobile phones and tablets yet without requiring a hexacore processor? hehe. My old iPhone 3G plays pure HTML5 videos great. It's a shame that after all this time only some of the very latest smartphones with much more powerful processors are able to play the same videos using flash and then still not play them as smoothly.
And Adobe had the nerve to be upset that the original iPhone did not include flash? Claiming that back in 2007/2008 they had a viable solution for flash video on mobile devices? Clearly they were wrong and I'm a huge Adobe fan.
I will give them credit though they have substantially improved flash on a Mac but it shouldn't have taken all this for them to recognize that Windows isn't the only platform they needed to cater to.
And Adobe had the nerve to be upset that the original iPhone did not include flash? Claiming that back in 2007/2008 they had a viable solution for flash video on mobile devices? Clearly they were wrong and I'm a huge Adobe fan.
I will give them credit though they have substantially improved flash on a Mac but it shouldn't have taken all this for them to recognize that Windows isn't the only platform they needed to cater to.
Cute. But why blame Flash because you insist on using a wonky browser?
Flash works like a charm on my Nexus S, with 1GHz single core.
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Now carefully read your own post and see the problem. Flash in Chrome is maintained by Google, not by Adobe. The version in this article is the one from Adobe maintained by Adobe and distributed by Adobe meant to work on Safari, Firefox and Opera (in case of the OS X version). This is a big difference which is clearly demonstrated by a certain security bug that Google fixed in Chrome before Adobe got around to fix it in their Flash version. Google was faster than the developer. The persons problem may not be his webbrowser but the Adobe Flash version itself. But then again, there are like 23849723947 other things that affect how well Flash worksI think the problem is your browser then, because Chrome never crashes on me and Flash is turned on and used daily.
For anyone using Chrome btw, no need to go out of your way to get this, the update to Chrome 11 we received yesterday had this plugin upgrade included.
Do you even understand what HTML is? Can I ask when you've browsed to a webpage containing flash that didn't use HTML?
The following statement is factually incorrect...
"Flash Player 10.3 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Android."
It is not available for Mac OS X on PowerPC so that blanket statement is false.
I know I'm nitpicking, but making blanket statements like that are always a bad idea since it is not available for certain versions of those operating systems.
BE SPECIFIC. This is a tech site, not Oprah.
"Flash Player 10.3 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Android."
It is not available for Mac OS X on PowerPC so that blanket statement is false.
I know I'm nitpicking, but making blanket statements like that are always a bad idea since it is not available for certain versions of those operating systems.
BE SPECIFIC. This is a tech site, not Oprah.
I use Flash, too. On my Mac. I'm enjoying the entire internet as well . . . using a ****** video standard. It's there so we're forced to put up with it.
Now imagine how bad it is on mobile devices.
I forgot to put the 5 at the end.
I do know what it is I've been a web developer since the middle of the 90's. It was just a simple typo.
Works flawless on my phone. In fact I was playing Wordfeud and switching between watching Megadeth's Youthanasia Documentary on youtube and it was fine (drained my battery but was still great performance wise!)
PowerPC is dead my friend.
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As someone already mentioned, that means it's also not available for Android...nor Windows, nor Linux. If we all had to be 'that' specific, no one would ever be able to say 'X is available on Windows' etc. etc.
If that bothers you, I think it's time for you to upgrade.
Hmm...Flash has been running fine on both my Windows and Mac machines...but then again I use Firefox and Chrome exclusively (Well, IE when I have too).
I agree.
Yes Flash is buggy and can grind the newest Mac to a halt, but given more time and resources Flash will get better on Macs, hopefully as good as it is on Windows.
HTML5 has a long way to go for general consumption. Yes videos in that format tend to play smoother but that is the only advantage IMHO.
Thankfully Apple kicked Adobe in the pants and woke them up. As long as they keep updating Flash it will get better. To see some people constantly complain about Adobe actually fixing Flash makes me wonder if their anger is misdirected. Are they mad at Adobe or apple for not allowing flash in the first place?
That's GREAT news!
Also, it's not always the Flash Player but poorly-written apps that can cause instability. And that's true for any platform.
And once Gala is expanded to cover ATi GPUs, and the sooner the better sine ATi's architecture is faster, things will only run smoother as well. I recall reading - last year - Apple opened up its APIs so developers (e.g. Adobe) could work on accelerator apps to make full use of peripheral processors (e.g. the GPU).
The more support Adobe gets will only encourage them.
Actually, videos are encoded in h.264 - HTML5 is just a scripting language that is comprised of tabs, with each tab telling the browser what to go do with itself and if different browsers treat different tags differently, then compatibility issues occur. (hence entities like Flash coming into fill that pesky problem to begin with.
) So as long as everybody adheres to HTML5 equally and doesn't "optimize" it for their own platform, all will be better for developers. I hope.
