On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:33 -0400, ken wrote:
The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does.
Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away.
Advantages of FF 4 with HTML 5
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-inline-svg-speed...
Problems with no 'official' video format for HTML 5
http://lifehacker.com/5488607/can-i-play-html5-youtube-videos-in-firefox-rig...
An alternative to Flash
http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-youtube-videos-in-html5/
The last 2 links mentioned Linux problems with buggy Flash.
Paul.