Linux Flash going to be limited to Chrome

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:40:17PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>>> <http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-only-future-for-Flash-on-Linux-1440104.html>
>>
>> That's a shame.
>>
>> I recently gave up on chrome.  It's way to bloated, uses way too much
>> ram and cpu, and I am tired of closing and restarting it multiple times
>> per day just to free some ram.  Chrome stinks as a browser these days.
>> Probably the worst browser there is.
>>
>
> Really? I find the opposite...if I use Iceweasel my machine seems to
> become embedded in lucite. Chrome always loads quick and doesn't
> affect my system at all. I leave it open for days at a time. And I
> have a very weak system, this that old AMD Sempron I put together from
> odd bits last year. This _seems_ to be borne out by the various 'speed
> test's I've seen, though I have no idea how scientific they might have
> been.
>

Should add, that's _unless_ I use Flash. Flash will cause the whole
computer to eventually lock up, but that's true for all browsers, at
least on this old piece of crap.

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Thomas Milne
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