Linux Flash going to be limited to Chrome

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yikes, okay, I never have 30 or 40 tabs open. I can't think of even
half a dozen web pages I would want open for that long...

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