Flash is great, all platforms should have it!

[mikeymike]

As far as I'm concerned Flash, and anyone who develops Flash clips, except the odd amusing one, can all go to Hell and burn :-)

I have a script to toggle Flash in Mozilla if I want it.  It renames a DLL, works on the fly without starting Mozilla.  I enable Flash maybe once a month if that.  Otherwise, its another useless annoying way for CPU usage to get eaten.

[mikeymike]

Yes, the Flash works fine, just there's half the CPU time missing!  I'm talking about this spec PC too!

For example, usually on tomshardware.com, there's a vertical banner that is probably 600 pixels in height and 100 in width.  That absolutely canes CPU time.

Then there's the more-often-than-not BONEHEADED uses of Flash, like this one [Iiyama UK], which is a real shame because I like the company and their products.  I'm sorry sir, your back button won't work because we can't design websites for s***.  Copy and paste text?  I'm afraid we can't let you do that Dave...

[mikeymike]

@ Waccoon

Internet Explorer is a REAL pain in this respect, because it offers no option to disable Flash only, or at least ask which Flash files you want to play.

This, general poor security implementation and Mozilla's better bookmarks system were the reasons why I changed browsers.

[mikeymike]

:-)

However, there are worse companies who could be in control of the primary file format used on the web :-)

[mikeymike]

@ Onetrack

people say who needs flash.. pah.. back in the early 90's people said ' real computers don't need colour..'

Yes, but DECENT new technologies don't drop all the advantages its predecessor had!