Good thing no one uses IE haha. But Metro is banning all plug-ins, not just Flash. They will still have a version of IE that allows plug-ins, and that includes Flash.
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Macbook Air and Flash Videos don't mix
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Good thing no one uses IE haha. But Metro is banning all plug-ins, not just Flash. They will still have a version of IE that allows plug-ins, and that includes Flash.
Flash on OS X sucks. That is Adobes fault not Apples. Adobe are lazy and have never put the resources into Flash they should have and especially on the Mac. So its a resource pig, unstable, and a malware magnet. Time for it to go away.
It also sucks on PC's for the same reasons but not quite as bad.
Chrome handles Flash a little better than Safari most likely because Google has made it an integral part of the browser.
Or use Click to Flash.
It also sucks on PC's for the same reasons but not quite as bad.
Chrome handles Flash a little better than Safari most likely because Google has made it an integral part of the browser.
Or use Click to Flash.
You better check process and resource utilization. Flash is banned at many large corporations because of security issues, resource consumption, and instability. Everyone wants Flash to go away except Adobe.
You must have had an incredibly old or corrupted Windows Laptop.
I've been running flash for years on my various ThinkPad Laptops, as have my fellow engineers at work and our laptops run cool, fast and stable. I haven't had a crash on a Windows laptop in over two years.
In fact the topic of flash never comes up. Our training videos are flash based, we run them for hours with no problems whatsoever.
In fact the only time flash came up was when Steve Jobs came out bitching and moaning and bad mouthing Adobe about it on his machines.
However I wasn't surprised as I have been an Apple enthusiast and user for years.
I understand that in AppleLand we are stuck with what Uncle Steve thinks is best for us, even when it's not.
Flash's poor performance on Mac OS X is solely Apple's fault.
For years they resisted providing Adobe with access to the GPU like they needed to make video playback accelerated on Mac OS X, when they finally added support for this in Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later they made it so that it only works on a handful of Mac models.
The end result is that Adobe is simply unable to use GPU acceleration on anything but those few models of Mac.
In order for things to get better, Apple needs to make their API work on more machines. As soon as they do that, Flash video performance should improve automatically because Adobe simply targets that API, not a specific model of Mac.
Windows doesn't have this problem because the necessary APIs are supported. There's better Flash video acceleration support on Linux as well (through an API provided by NVIDIA GPUs).
For years they resisted providing Adobe with access to the GPU like they needed to make video playback accelerated on Mac OS X, when they finally added support for this in Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later they made it so that it only works on a handful of Mac models.
The end result is that Adobe is simply unable to use GPU acceleration on anything but those few models of Mac.
In order for things to get better, Apple needs to make their API work on more machines. As soon as they do that, Flash video performance should improve automatically because Adobe simply targets that API, not a specific model of Mac.
Windows doesn't have this problem because the necessary APIs are supported. There's better Flash video acceleration support on Linux as well (through an API provided by NVIDIA GPUs).
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