Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome

MacGene noted that Google has announced plans to include Flash with Chrome. This step will make Chrome easier for Mom & Pop to use, but comes with a host of issues that have been discussed here before. I expect them to announce Silverlight Thursday.

CmdrTaco is en fuego

[Red Flayer]

Hey, not that it has anything to do with anything, but Rob is ripping the one-liners attached to article summaries today.

This article:
I expect them to announce Silverlight Thursday.

The Novell/SCO article:
No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.

The NASA/Toyota article:
We're really in trouble when NASA has no choice but to call Bruce Willis.

The slow-people-down-with-obstacles-article:
All of that is gonna work a lot better than my strategy of placing car-sized holes covered with twigs and branches randomly every half mile or so down the interstates.

Is CmdrTaco giddy with anticipation of some giant prank for Thursday? If he on the gigglejuice? Is he just happy spring is here?

Who knows... but it's nice to see some light-hearted editorialization for a change.

And, now, rightfully so, please mod this post into oblivion.

Processes per page?

[wiredlogic]

Presumably this integration will allow multiple flash apps on a page all running in a single flash process. This could have dramatic performance benefits in page loads and memory utilization.

Re:The problem is that it promotes the use of Flas

[Toonol]

I kind of agree; flash, java applets, silverlight, can be real nuisances, and it's not really their fault; it's due to a flawed browser paradigm. The client (the web-browser) was designed poorly to handle scripting back in the 90's, and it's been constant headaches ever since. The way the client was designed is innately flawed.

I don't think switching to Python would make anything better. Actionscript, which is basically just modern Javascript, is a decent language... its only real problem is how it's integrated into the browser. If Python had been used in its place, all the cool kids would despise Python.

Re:hopefully..

[MikeFM]

Chrome sucks when you have 40 or 50 tabs open. Uses craploads of resources. Still doesn't seem to let me treat different tabs as different sessions (logged into two different GMail accounts at once).

Re:Is it removable?

[Jugalator]

Or if you don't like unstable browsers, try renaming the included Flash DLL. It's not like it's baked into the executable or something.