Linux Flash going to be limited to Chrome

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 24 21:03:41 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:08:56PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> 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.

Try using facebook with all its javascript, and gmail, and youtube with
flash, and keep 30 or 40 tabs open, and chrome will kill the machine.

firefox isn't great either, but handles a lot more than chrome.

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