Mea culpa. Everytime Flash plugin crashes and Firefox says "Ooops, do you want me to send the info about this crash to Apple?" I click on Yes, please.
Do you want me to stop doing this, to improve the Flash image? PS I have to admit, I am doing it several times a day, so maybe that's why Jobs thinks it is so bad.... Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jochem van Dieten <joch...@...> wrote: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Guy Morton wrote: > > On 30/04/2010, at 6:22 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: > > That article is so wrong, in so many places, but the corrections will never > > get the same exposure. Good tactic, unfortunately. > > > > I'm interested to know where you think he is factually wrong. > > I believe Steve Jobs is factually wrong in the following claim: > "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash." > > On a modern Operating System a userland application can not crash the > system. Only errors in hardware or in privileged processes (the kernel > and drivers) running in ring 0 can crash can operating system. Ring 3 > code can not. > Now I immediately believe him if he wants to claim that Flash is the > number one reason Safari or Camino crashes. But the only way I can > imagine Flash crashing the system is if Mac OS X allows userland > applications access to hardware. And operating systems that allow that > deserve to crash. > > Jochem > > -- > Jochem van Dieten > http://jochem.vandieten.net/ >
