A day without Adobe Flash
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Jun 032010
With the iPad being released and it not supporting Adobe Flash I thought it would be a good idea to see if I could browse the web for 1 day without flash. Here are the results:
Pros
- The browser seems to perform much better with Flash disabled when visiting websites who have Flash content. Most of them only use Flash for some fancy stuff. Without Flash installed they use static images instead.
- Less CPU usage!
Cons
- It is impossible to view the nice graphical information in your Google Analytics reports, also the calendar in Google Analytics uses Flash. The Google Analytics website is pretty useless without Flash.
- Youtube.. Most of the videos are available without Flash when you join the HTML5 Beta, but there are still videos who require to have Flash installed (most of them are videos with advertisements in it).
- Other video sites I visit however do not yet support the HTML5 video tag, so they are pretty unusable to me now.
- Most of the games online are Flash games..
As you can see the results are clear, the internet is not yet ready to get rid of Flash but I’m sure HTML5 (it isn’t even finished yet) and whatever comes after it will replace Flash at some point but till then I just keep Flash installed and enabled.
I listen to a lot of music, sometimes from random sites, sometimes from youtube — a day without flash wouldn’t be possible for me.
With that said, the 64bit Linux flash support doesn’t even exist(Huge cpu/memory leaks, glitchy)
I use Spotify for music. And indeed the 64bit version of Flash for Linux is a big failure..
I use GrooveShark, Playlist.com, Youtube, and some others. I might check out Spotify, tho.
“the internet is not yet ready to get ride of Flash”
*rid
there is a way to run Google Analytics reports on your iPad in the near future
since there is a GA Adobe Air application
and AIR gets ported
Then it would still be useless for me since I do not have an iPad.
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