[dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome

[John R Bartow]

And more patched exploits than Mac ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 3:55 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome

Steve Jobs had it right when he banned the product from Apple. As well as
being annoying, Flash has more exploits than Windows.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "peter brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:33:20 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome

Leaving the question: why doesn't Flash just die?

PB

---- Original Message ----
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Date: 06/14/15 3:09 PM
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Cc: 
Sub: Re: [dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome Thanks for the heads
up. :-) 

I have been fighting the Chrome "pig" for a while and had only found that by
going into "Task manager", killing the Chrome modules directly, effectively
crashing it, then restarting Chrome and allowing it to "restore" its lost
links, was my only work-around. Crude, direct, but it is effective and
definitely better than closing out properly restarting and losing all your
links.  

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:26:45 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome

On an old geezer of a box running 64-bit Win7Pro in 4G of RAM, with no
capacity for RAM expansion, Chrome was often eating up to a gigabyte of
memory /per tab/, inciting swap thrashing. No amount of Chrome tuning could
dissuade it from such behaviour.

Till I added the "FlashControl" Chrome extension, which immediately made the
memory problem vanish---no tab now uses even 200KB no matter how long it's
been open---and also removed the annoyance of unwanted, intrusive flash
videos launching themselves and disturbing the cherished quiet in this room.
The tiny price I pay for this boon is that in the unlikely event I do wish
to play a flash video, I must click on it.

Jes' sayin'.

PB
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