I've kind of come to the same conclusion. The Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox was the bane of my existance.. with it in, memory leak in Firefox was insane, I'd get up to 500Mb in the task manager (and over) for a firefox instance in a few hours. Pulled it out, and Firefox went back to reasonable.
The silverlight plugin thing doesn't seem to have an issue that I can find that way. And, to be honest, it actually just works the way I expect it to. I don't really ask a lot of a thing like silverlight except: don't screw up. Watched the NCAA's on ESPN (silverlight) and I use Netflix in mediacenter.. both like a charm. And since they are coming out with 720p/5.1 audio Silverlight from Netflix this summer... Somewhere along the line, Adobe just completely screwed their product, they either didn't grow it, didn't do something.. because right now, the flash plugin just sucks. Meanwhile, Silverlight freaking can use video cards for hardware acceleration (DXVA) so CPU usage is less, memory usage is less.. Hell, MS even went out and helps with a Linux/Unix version (Moonlight) that they work with.. Adobe? Yeah, not so much. ( http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx ) Sometimes MS is an easy target to bash.. a bit too easy. So, when they actually get something right, it either gets overlooked, or it has to be enough of a dead-on that adoption happens (win7). I've ripped Flash off of several PCs and just went Silverlight. So far, I haven't found a site I care about I don't see in either H264 or Silverlight. -----Original message----- From: "Greg Sevart" [email protected] Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 04:09:57 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Bing Maps.. > I'm personally not a huge fan of either Flash or Silverlight technologies, > but I feel a lot more comfortable with SL than Flash on my managed systems... > > Adobe products, especially Flash and Acrobat/Reader, have become > extraordinarily common attack vectors. I think that's attributable to both a > poor or broken software security methodology and lack of a good centralized > patch management system without bolting on another product. > > The SL maps really are quite impressive. Kinda steals some thunder out of > Channel 9's video showing the Direct2D GPU-rendered IE9 navigating through > Bing Maps. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of maccrawj > > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 2:50 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] Bing Maps.. > > > > Could be greatest thing since sliced bread but that's not going to get > > SilverLight on any of my boxes! Hell I'm still battling fraking M$ adding > > their > > other dren to Firefox without warning. > > > > On 4/30/2010 11:16 PM, CW wrote: > > > Has anyone played with the new one? Holy cow.. > > > > > > http://bing.com/maps/explore/ > > > > > > (requires silverlight) but jeez.. outside of insanely fluid, the modes to > > > show > > different shots of locals from their db vs. flickr geotagged vs. time > > stamped > > and relative.. outside of minute-by-minute starmaps visibile from location.. > > > > > > Pretty wild stuff. > > > > > >
