I have noticed with my Macbook Pro that it gets hot whenever I look at a site which uses Adobe Flash. This can be checked quite easily using the ActivityMonitor - which shows much higher CPU use when browsers are used to look at sites using Flash. This even happens on the for3 forum site, if a thread with a lot of YouTube videos is activated. It is possible to set Quicktime as an alternative for some YouTube situations - though whether this is significantly better I don't know yet.
HTML5 should be able to do most of the same things, and hopefully better, but that doesn't mean that all web site developers will use HTML5 instead of Flash.
Apple - led by Steve Jobs - has consistently held that Flash caused problems, and has refused to incorporate it into their OS.
Some PC "experts" (real or self appointed) have also held that it is not a particularly good tool to have on all the time, and causes problems with frequent updates.
As a result of this thinking I have blocked the use of Flash in my browsers, but there are still sites which I'd like to see which use Flash, and now I have to decide each time I visit such a site whether to enable it or not. Despite blocking Flash routinely, note that this does not necessarily also block pop up adverts.
Some writers on the impact of the demise of Win XP have also advocated removing other Adobe products, such as Adobe Reader, which it has been claimed present security risks, though whether this really does lead to fewer problems I'm not sure. Sumatra PDF has been suggested as an alternative - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF though this is a Windows only application.
I now hardly use Windows of any variety at all - but I really do wonder whether there are satisfactory alternatives to Flash which will work over the common platforms today. It's all very well writing that it's not good, but without a sensible alternatives this does not seem to be as helpful as it could be.
HTML5 should be able to do most of the same things, and hopefully better, but that doesn't mean that all web site developers will use HTML5 instead of Flash.
Apple - led by Steve Jobs - has consistently held that Flash caused problems, and has refused to incorporate it into their OS.
Some PC "experts" (real or self appointed) have also held that it is not a particularly good tool to have on all the time, and causes problems with frequent updates.
As a result of this thinking I have blocked the use of Flash in my browsers, but there are still sites which I'd like to see which use Flash, and now I have to decide each time I visit such a site whether to enable it or not. Despite blocking Flash routinely, note that this does not necessarily also block pop up adverts.
Some writers on the impact of the demise of Win XP have also advocated removing other Adobe products, such as Adobe Reader, which it has been claimed present security risks, though whether this really does lead to fewer problems I'm not sure. Sumatra PDF has been suggested as an alternative - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF though this is a Windows only application.
I now hardly use Windows of any variety at all - but I really do wonder whether there are satisfactory alternatives to Flash which will work over the common platforms today. It's all very well writing that it's not good, but without a sensible alternatives this does not seem to be as helpful as it could be.
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