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    I've noticed quite a few people slate Flash, can someone please explain what the problem is people are having with it.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    It's an overused technology with poor Linux clients.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    It's buggy, causes crashes and consumes a lot of sysmted resources. IMO, it could be implemented better.
    Though I don't like Apple, I support them abandoning Flash.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    works fine here...just my experience. no crashes/bugs
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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    I love Flash, never had issues with it.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    It's not open source
    It doesn't use CPU resources efficiently
    It's always behind the times in Linux support (there's no VA-API or VDPAU support in Flash Player, but there is in Gnash)
    It's often misused by web developers.
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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    I've got this PC, it runs lightning fast on Vista

    Boot up Jaunty or Karmic and the frame-rate isn't sufficient

    I guess others have similar issues

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    Wink Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodmaster View Post
    works fine here...just my experience. no crashes/bugs
    Same here.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    Like anything Adobe does it's very very bloated (look how fireworks and dreamweaver have bloated out since macromedia were bought out, and in Windows-land compare Acrobat Reader to Foxit). Adobe don't know how to make efficient and secure code. That's a problem for all of us.

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    Re: Flash, and why is there some much anger about it?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodmaster View Post
    works fine here...just my experience. no crashes/bugs
    Well as long as it's fine on your machine, there is obviously no problem.

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