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Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by jdietrich » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 3:31 AM UTC

Within fifteen seconds of Flash Crash crashing my Flash, my laptop's fan stopped for the first time today. I think I might just uninstall flash.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by philwelch » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 3:50 AM UTC

grinich wrote: post #20

ClickToFlash for Safari/Webkit on Mac is one of the best add-ons I've found. http://clicktoflash.com/ http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash

Yes, but oddly it seems to circumvent Safari's protective spawning of Flash to a separate process when it does load. When I clicked the browser-crashing Flash app, it actually crashed Safari, and Activity Monitor never picks up the separate Flash process anymore.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by maweaver » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:05 AM UTC

37prime wrote: post #13

It seems Flash 10.1 beta is not affected by this bug.

The linked bug report lists it as fixed in Flash Player 10 - 10_1_51_66, so that sounds right.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by electromagnetic » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:07 AM UTC

It's always nice to see bugs are addressed quickly . . . which Is why I'm not really surprised, Adobe products have always had a clunky feel to me and Flash was genuinely a product destined for them.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by chanux » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:13 AM UTC

grinich wrote: post #20

ClickToFlash for Safari/Webkit on Mac is one of the best add-ons I've found. http://clicktoflash.com/ http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash

FlashBlock for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by ramchip » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:23 AM UTC

m104 wrote: post #3

Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.

And much praise to the Opera team for just not crashing in the first place. I can zoom in the blue square, move around, etc. and the page is still fine after a minute or so leaving it open.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by radley » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:24 AM UTC

Sorry, nothing happened. Firefox on OSX.

Prolly the worst [anti-Flash] troll post so far.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by itistoday » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:26 AM UTC

You know this whole Flash debacle is a real shame because Flash, at least the concept of Flash, is really a great idea with lots of potential.

Flash allows people to create wonderful things (just visit newgrounds.com) but Adobe's lack of commitment to improving it is dragging it down and could be its unfortunate downfall.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by Brushfire » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:31 AM UTC

m104 wrote: post #3

Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.

It handles it less gracefully than I would have assumed. If you are running flash in multiple Chrome windows, this will corrupt ALL of them, instead of just the one visiting the page linked above. Wasnt one of Chrome's huge selling features the idea of memory independence?

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by windsurfer » Sat, Feb 06, 2010, 4:39 AM UTC

Brushfire wrote: post #29

m104 wrote: post #3

Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.

It handles it less gracefully than I would have assumed. If you are running flash in multiple Chrome windows, this will corrupt ALL of them, instead of just the one visiting the page linked above. Wasnt one of Chrome's huge selling features the idea of memory independence?

Flash is to blame for that one.