[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Kurt Buff]

On Jan 8, 2008 6:55 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:50:17 -0800
> Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes I frequently see it crash into thin air, both on Ubuntu and on XP.
> > On my Ubuntu systems, which I use more, I get more crashes and
> > freezeups, usually associated with watching videos or listening to
> > music.  Google video seems to be worse for me than Youtube, and Guba
> > is perhaps not quite as bad as Google Video.  However, on my Ubuntu
> > desktop at home I can often leave firefox up for days and have it
> > still be functional.  Still, it would be nice if it could have the
> > same kind of stability that linux servers brag about.
>
> These are actually likely bugs in flash, which is something I forgot to
> mention.
>
> Flash is an animation tool.  It runs things at 30 frames a second,
> non-stop.  You can't really turn it off.  So if you've got a page with
> flash on it, stuff is running constantly and that can eat up resources,
> as well as make things unstable.

Flash is evil. I hates it, I do.

I don't expect silverlight will be any better.

Kurt