On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:34, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > On 03/29 09:06 , Dan Armbrust wrote: >> But if you want to watch full-screen online flash video - the more >> power the better - this is funny only because it is so true >> >> http://xkcd.com/619/ >> >> The hoverover tooltip even specifically mentions the intel driver :-) > > How much does the video card affect Flash playback? I would have thought it > was a largely CPU-bound problem, but I guess it depends on how much the > implementation uses the X video hooks. > > On a slightly unrelated issue; does anyone else find Flash on Linux crashes > their browser more than it does on Windows? adobe flash and adobe acrobat are the cause of a vast majority of my browser crashes. i'm would to say that using adobe products is to be considered harmful. granted there are other things that crash Firefox, (and i am assuming you meant Firefox). upgrading the browser(via a package manager) while it is still open has caused it to crash several times on me, by frequency this would be the number 2 cause of browser crashes. nfs home disappearing for a while has caused it to crash, not unexpected but many other applications did not crash.