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

**dragos240** · February 18th, 2010

It uses a lot of system resources, as said before. Honestly, it's just really a pain to use.

**madnessjack** · February 18th, 2010

Originally Posted by Grenage

Well as long as it's fine on your machine, there is obviously no problem.

Haha, quote of the day

**samh785** · February 18th, 2010

Originally Posted by Nerd King

Adobe don't know how to make efficient and secure code. That's a problem for all of us.

I wouldn't necessarily say that; it's more that they don't feel like spending the money to do so.

**point_man** · February 18th, 2010

My friend calls it 'Flush', because of its closed source nature.

I am just a normal user and what I don't like is that more often than not I experience crashes because of badly written flash apps. That should not be allowed to happen.

**Psumi** · February 18th, 2010

1. It's not open source.
2. It has consumed 50-60 percent of my CPU.
3. It flickers.

**purgatori** · February 18th, 2010

It's a buggy resource hog that doesn't support my keyboard shortcuts for navigation in Vimperator. I quite like it for video, but that's only because embedded ogg hasn't caught on yet.

**phrostbyte** · February 18th, 2010

I think most of the problems can be summed up as thus:

NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION (not even through Xv)

Combine "no hardware acceleration" with "H.264 decoding" (not well known for it's computational efficiency), and you have a recipe for fail.

**Grenage** · February 18th, 2010

Full HD video works fine on one of my laptops, yet flash does not. Conclusion - Flash client sucks.

**FuturePilot** · February 18th, 2010

Because it sucks in every way possible.

Eats CPUs
Misused
Buggy
There always seems to be a new exploit found in it
No hardware acceleration
Poor Linux version (I've even heard it's not too great on OS X either)

**purgatori** · February 18th, 2010

Originally Posted by FuturePilot

Because it sucks in every way possible.

Eats CPUs
Misused
Buggy
There always seems to be a new exploit found in it
No hardware acceleration
Poor Linux version (I've even heard it's not too great on OS X either)

Yup, that about sums it up. Out of all the issus you identified though, I think its misuse is probably the one that bothers me the most. Flash interfaces are uniformly horrible when it comes to content navigation, and I'll often avoid visiting official sites for companies/movies/games, etc. that I want to find information for because I know that I'll probably have to suffer through all sorts of Flash nonsense. Plenty of other web technologies is similarly abused when, in most cases, plain 'ole HTML would do the job just fine, but Flash is easily the most obtrusive and obnoxious of the lot.