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Adobe needs to kill Flash once and for all

by techdog on 4/12/15, 12:56 PM with 6 comments

  • by vezycash on 4/12/15, 1:14 PM

    A bad programmer would find a way to write an unsafe, bug ridden program regardless of the programming language's safety features - even Haskell.

    Kill flash, kill flash and your browser will still freeze with rouge JavaScript/html5 animations.

    At least with flash, you can easily turn it off without losing 20% functionality on most sites. Turn off JavaScript and you would lose more than 80% usability on most sites including Facebook.

    Btw, in early 2000's sites were going crazy with flash only sites. The same is happening right now - sites that won't work if JavaScript is turned off.

    If Adobe kills flash, your browser will still crash, use 100% CPU. Hence won't change a thing. In fact would be worse because you can't turn it off.

  • by jleahy on 4/12/15, 1:17 PM

    Wow you have to subscribe to their mailing list to view any page on that blog, that's pretty unpleasant.

  • by orf on 4/12/15, 2:48 PM

    I don't have flash installed at all. I don't miss it, there are a few sites that require it for some stuff (Facebook I'm looking at you) but in general I haven't missed it. Good riddance.