clipka wrote:
> Patrick Elliott schrieb:
>> One thing I have a huge issue with is Flash. Seems to be a leak in 
>> there some place, when playing movies, where it will *refuse* to close 
>> at all, since it can't unload the fragmented mess created by playing 
>> too many of them. It gets worse if I have a lot of tabs open. In fact, 
>> when ever I get high CPU usage, or slow shut down, or even slow 
>> performance in other applications, its almost *always* the result of 
>> playing several Youtube videos, and the fact that I leave firefox open 
>> all the time.
> 
> Hum... so from all I hear - I guess I'd better ditch my idea of 
> switching from IE8 to Firefox, huh?
> 
> After all, really the only thing that bothers me about IE8 is that for 
> the 64-bit version (which I've made standard on my Windows XP x64 
> system) Adobe hasn't released a Flash player yet (can it really be 
> *that* much of a problem?), so I always need to explicitly launch the 
> 32-bit version.
That's a bit like saying, "Guess I should forget about switching from 
the car which has a tendency to break gas lines and explode, to ones 
that needs its air filter changed too much.", isn't it?

IE, and I have to assume 8 is the same, had similar, and often far 
worse, issues with some plugins. Its just, when that breaks, it tends to 
be cataclysmic, not simply annoying.

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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