Comments on: I Hate Adobe Flash!!!!!!!!!!

By: ddaymace

ddaymace — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:40:38 +0000

Flash can and should be replaced with html5 & javascript in most cases. 100% Flash sites and games can stay I guess…I’ll be happy never seeing a preloader again.

Everything that is forced on the user should be open source standards compliant.

And Safari is the best browser in the world. I leave it open at work with 40+ windows open and it didn’t crash for 60 days. (because I have clicktoflash plugin blocking flash unless I allow).

Welcome to the new web. Poor Actionscript devs feeling obsolete and need to lash out? There will still be Flash work, just significantly reduced.

By: saddamsork

saddamsork — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:31 +0000

I can just agree. Flash sucks big time. Running ubuntu karmic koala and flash in firefox claims near all my CPU power. The only solution is to install flash blocker and turn it on for speciell needs.

By: craig

craig — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:22:38 +0000

yes i think adobes flash player is total crap ever tried playing a youtube video and got the message an error occured please try again later………thats shitty flash and it gets even worse if your on 64 bit programs just total shite and yes lets all smack the wanker round the face that created it, is there no alternative to adobes flash player that will play youtube vids???

By: buddy

buddy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:08:06 +0000

I feel your pain Mac users, Adobe also treats us Linux users like second class citizens. If it weren’t for the fact that flash dominates the web, I’d dump Adobe like I dumped Microsoft. Seems if you are not a Microwh*re and an Adobefreak you’re not allowed to use the web! grrrrrrrr

By: black and blue

black and blue — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:43 +0000

I totally agree! Could some please hit the developers in Adobe on their head. Do they have any product that is not a piece of shit. Luckily there are now some goooood pdf witers. Hope we will have a flash replacement soon.

By: Elena

Elena — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:08:44 +0000

It’s not only with Mac OS X… or Safari, or Mozilla or Explorer… it’s Adobe Flash the guilty thing, and I agree with all the frustrated users. No matter what browser or system I use, Flash-based *ads* make my session freeze and I have to quit whatever application I’m using. Yes, I hate the way adobe flash causes to slow down or freeze so many web sessions. I wonder if adobe gurus are aware of it.

By: gigadiva

gigadiva — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:50:47 +0000

Flash? Either you love it or hate it. It has all the bells and whistles. But knowing when and where to use it on a website …. some people are all to eager to stick flash EVERYTHERE. It gets to the point where it is annoying. The same can be said for pop-up windows or … shiver me timbers … JAVA ! There are coders who know their stuff and then there are the wannabes … maybe there should be some kind of test you have to pass before you put just any old thing up on the internet. Nuff said.

By: bhall978ll

bhall978ll — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:47:32 +0000

Every time I watch large flash video on my MacBook, the CPU goes up, the machine heats up a lot, and the fans kick on at a high rpm. Seriously, adobe, why does flash have to be such a resource hog? Even a flash based ad on a site causes safari to go to the top of the proccesses list.

By: olv

olv — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:14:09 +0000

Flash is evil. That is why:

1. Flash is too slow on old hardware.

2. Flash doesn’t work with many software from the opensource world.

3. Flash is a proprietary piece of software.

4. Flash is buggy

By: Alex F.

Alex F. — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:37:23 +0000

As a flash developer, I know the virtues (or lack thereof) of the platform up close and personal, and I have to support the original statement. Flash is mediocrity wrapped in a colorful box.

I won’t go into technical detail, but the Flash compiler can be regarded as one of the worst — to the degree of ‘forgetting’ about its own built-in types or not catching obvious errors.

Yes, I know it puts food on the table. Yes, I know it should be grateful. But no moral truism will change the fact that it’s nowhere near as solid as it should be, specially considering all the money Adobe makes out of it.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:35:53 +0000

I’ve never had a single crash because of Flash…it is likely another add-on causing the conflict. Chris, for a “techy” with a “tech” blog, you sure don’t know how to troubleshoot worth a shit.

Instead of crying like a baby because safari sucks ballz, try doing something about it like troubleshooting the issue or using another browser. Just cause crapfari says it is all flash’s fault, doesn’t necessarily mean it is.

God you’re an idiot.

By: pc

pc — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:44:58 +0000

Get pc.

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:34:07 +0000

Having the same problems in Kubuntu with Firefox.
Adobe hasn’t even tried to get Flash in Konqueror.

Every time I try to use the Flash plugin, it crashes. Gnash doesn’t have sound, and Amarok, Gnash, and Flash all seem to fighting over ALSA, which is being emulated by Pulseaudio or something.

There’s just too much shit going on and I have no fucking clue what’s even wrong.

Why the hell can’t people just use normal videos like AVI or MPEG or Theora?

Then I could actually fucking watch them instead of fiddling with Flash all fucking day.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:00:17 +0000

Wow, what a bunch of old, crotchety Flash haters. “When I was your age we had text-only web sites…blah blah blah”. Is anyone commenting not an AARP member? Good luck waiting for Silverlight, as if that dog will hunt. Quit blaming Flash when your shit-ass Safari browser is the problem, and get your self checked into a “I run a Mac and I have a chip on my shoulder” group therapy session. OOPS! That’s what this blog is, isn’t it?

By: Shawn K. Quinn

Shawn K. Quinn — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:03:13 +0000

I agree with the first half of John’s advice: uninstall Flash. However, unless you’ve committed yourself irrevocably to a site which won’t work without it, I would avoid reinstalling Flash, or at least keep an entirely separate user account and browser install with Flash just for those sites if you absolutely must.

There are many other reasons to uninstall Flash for good, namely that it is not an open standard, and that Adobe has made a mockery of the term “open standard” by mislabeling its release of the proprietary, NDA clickwrapped Flash specification as such.

It is a shame watching the better part of two decades’ worth of work by Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C go down the drain by yet another Flash movie served over HTTP in place of a Web site.