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Compared to Firefox my Safari web browser seems to crash often whenever I watch any flash videos. Also I've noticed that the emoticons and avatar seem to animate slower in Safari than Firefox as well.

I read a review about the new changes Safari 4 was supposed to bring .One of changes was that if you're watching a flash video and the flash plug-in decides to crash then only that tab will and not the whole browser. Is this true for anybody?

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IEATFISH

I know my wife had a page that wouldn't load flash content this morning. I just didn't even try...

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CallmeRoth

My guess would be Apple dislikes Flash due to their own Quicktime. But for them to "sabotage" flash is very unprofessional so it is unlikely what I said.

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Tohdman

Quicktime ≈ Flash?

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Sozin

Safari just crashes all the time for me, so I can't really say whether it happens because of Flash.

mentholmoose

Adobe's flash plugin is poorly written for OS X. It's the same in any Mac browser, unfortunately. I luckily haven't had flash crash yet, but from what I've heard it won't even close the tab, just all the flash animations. A quick refresh should reload everything.

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halifax1

+1.

Flash on OS X is awful. I almost want to boot into Boot Camp with Windows 7 just to get nice Flash support.

It's completely horrible on OS X. If watching a video on YouTube and I pause it, sometimes I have to refresh because I can no longer click play or have any interaction with the Flash player what-so-ever.

I really hate Flash all together on OS X. It's just crap to be honest.

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eflyguy

Huh. Strange. I use YouTube a lot, and my MacBook almost exclusively, and have had no issues. Same for my wife, who is using a Mac Mini - as well as YouTube, she watches tons of videos from news sites, etc.

edit: sorry, we use Firefox, not Safari.
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Yuusou

I've don't use Firefox, but the few times I've tried it I didn't notice any difference. What I can tell you though is that Adobe has always left Mac OS Flash on the side lines. It's always been a dog and will always be one.

What to know something else? M$ Silverlight completely crushes flash as far as performance goes in my Macs. Ain't that something.