This is the same reply I put in Chromium discussion group about Flash:
I don't think Flash is evil. I just think it sux.
I discover Flash was a very poorly optimized software when I starting
using a laptop. The fan goes up because of the intensive cpu use and
the battery goes down fast.
It doesn't matter what Chromium developers do to change it. This is a
Flash problem. The way to end this problem is to end Flash by itself.
Remember how websites had flash introductions? Well, people realized
that was a waste of time (for the end-user) and bandwidth (for the
server).
You still can see websites made completely in Flash but it's not as
common as before. Today the good web developers are using CSS and
Javascript for animations. They work great and keep the cpu cool. That
means less and less web developers are using Flash. [Check a website
I'm developing,
www.miknos.com to see a smooth animation without flash
and cpu friendly].
The only reason Flash is keeping a high user-base (around 95% of
computers) it's because of video. Before we had RealPlayer, Quicktime,
Windows Media and others. Flash manage to fix that problem (at the
cost of having a cpu hog).
Html5 (the new standard) have embed video incorporated. Safari and
Firefox already have it, so you can see html5 sites (google it).
Something pushing back is the standard codec to use. Apple wants H.264
and the other part want OGG. H.264 is better (quality/compression) but
OGG is open-source.
Whatever wins, I believe big websites are going to push Html5 and the
end of Flash. Youtube is already pushing the end of Internet Explorer
6. [ Maybe when html5 becomes standard, we'll see youtube pushing it and Flash crap will end ]
For a better browsing experience, use GlimmerBlocker for blocking ads and Click2Flash for Flash crap. Click2Flash has a nice feature. In youtube, it opens the videos in mp4 format using quicktime instead of flash (like the iPhone).
