I don't mean evil in the classical sense, and I certainly am NOT saying that the good people at Adobe, the Adobe Corp. itself, or the people using Flash are evil.
But in terms of wasted bandwidth and CPU cycles, computer slowdowns and/or crashes, etc., yeah I think Flash is ev!l. And the combined effect of the way Flash runs (very greedily) and its ubiquity on the Web causes ev!l. My latest example of this resource hog's ev!l: Because of the problems Flash presents, I don't run Chromium with plugins enabled. Unfortunately, some sites use Flash to hide the content I want to see, so I fire up another browser just for those sites. Then I close the browser down. Just now, I noticed that my system was running slowly... consuming way more CPU cycles than it normally does for the task load I'd given it. Task Manager says... 39% CPU load consumed by Flash (npviewer.bin). What?! I'd shut down the browser I used just for Flash HOURS ago, and the d...@mn thing is STILL eating RAM and CPU cycles in the background?! imho, Flash is responsible for nearly as many slow PC problems as Windows. I've solved the MS problem by switching to Linux, and thought I got a handle on the Adobe Flash problem by restricting its use, but it still bites me from time to time. I truly hope the Chromium wizards come up with a way to banish Flash into running in a very small sandbox. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
