When flash is not that fast

Never has an application name so dubious: Adobe Flash, it's not so fast. In fact, it's a pain in the ass. It's pretty cool that we have a extreme variety in the browser world (you could choose between Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari,...) but there is one single application for that specific form of content: Adobe Flash Player. (A true and invincible monopoly).

This is what happens when I start to play the Flash 10 demo in Adobe page: Everything is normal, then CPU gets to the top, and it just goes down to normal when I stop the Flash animation. ¡Sad! I really wonder if Flash needs all that CPU to do that silly crap, or is just that they are lazy in optimizing their code...

First of all, it's my mistake: I have upgraded to Flash 10 with the hope that this could go any faster (and also because many web sites - Vimeo, for example - only support Flash 10). And specially since I have heard news of some security exploits in old versions of Flash.

Good news is that there is hope to step back: First, there is an Uninstaler for Flash Player.

Second, it's still posible to download Flash 9 (it's a player for Mac OS X pre-Tiger, but I won't care about that).

What were you expecting? The result is: A little bit less CPU usage, but more or less the same stuff.

Well, I decided to stay with Flash 9 for a while (for stubborness), but you could see it does not worth so much the efford. Just stay with Flash 10 if you feel like...

11 October 2009