Crashy Flash ?

[Olivero]

For some reason flash sites on Chrome and Firefox keep crashing. They are really big sites too (and no, nothing dodgy)...
Using a new(ish) Macbook Pro. Any ideas ?

[The_Jackal]

I assume you have checked you have the latest version of flash player?

[pbirkett]

Olivero said:

Macbook Pro

There's your answer.

Get a proper computer

[Olivero]

Yes, got the latest version. So not that...

[pbirkett]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Olivero]

pbirkett said:

Olivero said:

Macbook Pro

There's your answer.

Get a proper computer

Got an 8-core Pro with 30 inch screen at the studio, but look a bit of an idiot using it in a cafe.

[ShadownINja]

Flash is a right PITA. Any website owner who wants to ruin a visitor's experience, just put Flash functionality on your site. I use live stock market charts plus multiple instances of Betfair plus live scores... I've seen one instance of Chrome taking over 300Mb of memory. It's stupid. Whenever I see an instance exceed 200Mb, I kill the process and reload.

[cyberface]

Olivero said:

pbirkett said:

Olivero said:

Macbook Pro

There's your answer.

Get a proper computer

Got an 8-core Pro with 30 inch screen at the studio, but look a bit of an idiot using it in a cafe.

My Macbook Pro was, briefly, faster than my 8-core Mac Pro with 30 inch screen. In terms of performance, the Windows fanboys who wandered over from the IT department to take the piss got a quick demonstration of how insanely fast it was… the usual response was some mumbling about how bright and high quality the LCD screen was, was it LED backlit? and a quick change of subject before wandering away.

I've applied similar upgrades to the Mac Pro and it's silly, like a litre superbike. More performance than I can use or need. Nice though.

Anyway back on topic, something like 90% of all OS X userland crashes are caused by Adobe's Flash plugin (from crash stats sent back to Apple), resulting in Jobs losing it and issuing that public slating of Flash as an entire platform and putting his considerable influence behind any effort to replace Flash with something Open that Apple could optimise.

Adobe have responded, but for maximum stability, install ClickToFlash on top of Safari so that *no* Flash objects are loaded and instantiated unless *you* actively click on them to say 'yes'. And ensure you have the very latest version of Flash from Adobe - they issued a very meek full-page newspaper advert asking Apple to live and let live, but you can bet the OS X development team at Adobe got a *serious* kicking by the Adobe board and they are working hard to make the OS X plugin more stable and quicker. Hopefully they're working *with* Apple, but when Jobs gets a bee in his bonnet, it's hard to tell.