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by emontero1 5889 days ago
"We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash."

I can attest to the veracity of this statement. My MBP's processor spikes whenever I get on YouTube or any other Flash-based site. I've had a couple of major crashes on both Firefox and Chrome while using Flash. I've also heard other users express similar views with these and other browsers on Ubuntu.
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orangecat 5888 days ago
The only kernel panics I've had on my Macs in the past year have happened while loading or watching Flash videos in Safari. Of course this indicates that both Adobe and Apple have critical bugs to fix, since there's no way Flash should be able to take out the OS no matter how buggy it is.
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grinich 5888 days ago
Check out YouTube's (beta) support for HTML5 video.

http://youtube.com/html5

ClickToFlash also does some good flash blocking and video replacement. http://clicktoflash.com/

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danudey 5888 days ago
One of the big reasons I use Safari on Snow Leopard is that when Flash crashes, it doesn't take the whole browser with it.

That said, I've started using ClickToFlash, which prevents Flash from loading except when I tell it to, and my browsing experience has become far faster and more reliable than it ever was before.

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mattmiller 5888 days ago
I was expecting Microsoft to try to scapegoat flash for all of there crashing issues a while back. I would have made sense, and it would have been half true. The bottom line is flash is crappy software, it makes the OS look bad, but the OS gets all the blame.
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