[OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, cpforum wrote:
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>> Flash is dead on most platforms.
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> Flash is not dead on Linux. The release is frozen but you still have security updates.

The bizzare thing is that I find Flash to be more stable in its last 
Solaris incantation than what I get from Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu 
Linux.  Several times now I have had to use the power switch to reboot 
the Ubuntu system (incuding just last week) because of massive memory 
leaks in Firefox/Flash yet I can run Firefox/Flash on Solaris for 
months at a time without a problem and it consumes 1/3 as much virtual 
memory as the Linux version when the Linux version appears to be 
working properly (before it leaks).  I also find that Firefox is more 
responsive on Solaris.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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