Lemme add: while possible.
--------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------
WARNING: Segmentation Faults in these executables
npviewer.bin : 1 Time(s)
WARNING: General Protection Faults in these executables
npviewer.bin : 9 Time(s)
---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------
This is an extract of the logwatch report that it’s generated every day in my Fedora system (do you read it, don’t you?)
Yes, it’s the flash-plugin 10.0.42.34-release (non-free, from Adobe repos), and yesterday crashed 10 times and I don’t remember I browsed any page with intensive flash stuff on it (that’s very vague, because almost any page in the Internet has Flash on it).
Anyway, it crashes, it sometimes eats all my CPU (and/or the sound it’s choppy), and it piss me off that I can’t see Vimeo stuff on HD (may be it’s my 3 years old laptop), but there’s no replacement right now that doesn’t exclude you from being a normal web citizen.
I think it’s too late for Flash, but we must learn from this story and try doing something so it doesn’t happen again. I bet you’ve seen links to Spotify, haven’t you? What happens when you click on it? Disappointment.
I don’t know what’s the formula to stop this kind of viral closed source adoption that leads to de facto standards that finally avoids you to be free to choose, but I know that Gtalk and XMPP advocacy helped with the Microsoft Messenger issue.
We may need both: a free implementation of the idea, and a cool company to promote it.
