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Flash Crash!

Posted on February 7th, 2010 at 9:54 by John Sinteur in category: News -- Write a comment

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“Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today,” Lynch wrote. “Addressing crash issues is a top priority in the engineering team, and currently there are open reports we are researching in Flash Player 10.”

Adobe Defends Flash, Calls Apple Uncooperative

If you go to this page with Flash enabled, your browser will crash in a few seconds. Adobe has known about that bug since 2008.

  1. pedant on February 7th, 2010 at 13:14:

    Didn’t crash, hmm maybe because I’m using a real browser not safari!

  2. John Sinteur on February 7th, 2010 at 13:15:

    Firefox crashes as well, so I’m interested to hear what you think a real browser is.

  3. Alan on February 7th, 2010 at 20:14:

    Opera didn’t crash either…

  4. murph on February 7th, 2010 at 21:10:

    Opera 10.10 on XP – notification about flash failure, recommended restart, but kept working.

  5. Roland Hesz on February 8th, 2010 at 18:21:

    Firefox crashed at once.

  6. pedant on February 8th, 2010 at 18:57:

    Chrome actually

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