On 12 Jan 2010, at 11:42, Dave Miers wrote:

> This whole deal is because my laptop is a 1.67 G4 PB and your supposed to have a min of a G5 for Flash CS4, although I have more then enough memory. However went ahead and tried installing CS4 last night and it went in ok. It's a little slow on startup, but once it's up it seems nimble enough even with a fairly large file loaded.

Goodness, how times change.

End of the year/end of the decade stuff. Been tidying up, cleaning out, exploring the darkest, dingiest recesses of the Flying Solo archives.

Once upon a time, I was a staunch advocate of Flash. Ironic then I've come to loathe it as it's become progressively bloated, slow and unstable, and for some time I've run ClickToFlash <http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/> on all my Macs. I neither need nor want Flash f***ing up my iPhone.

Apart from Director integration, I no longer have any real need/desire to employ it.

>
> I could have loaded Flash 8 from the Macromedia days, but that's getting pretty old and only supports actionscript 2.0, although for the project that started this that would have been ok.

Flash 8 is okay. The only reason I bought CS3 was a] for native Intel version and b] copy and paste from Illustrator.

Beyond that there's not much which interests me. Couldn't/can't be arsed learning AS3, better things to invest the time in these days.


Here's an experiment for you to try. ClickToFlash claim:

• Lowered CPU usage
Browse the web more quickly.
• Better battery life
Browse the web longer on your laptop.
• Less fan usage and heat
Browse the web quietly and cooly

On my MacBook Air, better battery life typically equates to another 45 minutes.

Read that again. 45 minutes.

Obviously YMMV may vary depending on the sites you visit and (presumably) the capability/condition of your battery.

I can vouch for the reduced heat as well, since the Air is used literally as a laptop.

Just a thought.


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Miles





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