Fucking Chrome and Fucking Flash

[Scipio]

Shockwave Flash player keeps crashing.  I've uninstalled and reinstalled both it and Chrome separately.  WTF?

[Grey Fox]

Stop using the 64 bit version.

[Scipio]

64 bit version of which?

[Barrister]

Funny - my advice would be to stop using both Chrome and Flash.

[viper37]

64 bit version of which?

of Flash.  Though I don't think it works on a 32bit browser, so the point is moot.

Use this:
http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html
Make a complete uninstall of both Chrome and Flash, not forgetting registry entries&all.

Reinstall Chrome, run it and go to a site where it will ask flash.  Then install it from there.

[Scipio]

Funny - my advice would be to stop using both Chrome and Flash.

That's interesting, because my advice to you would be stop using Macs and abandon Protestantism for the one true faith.

Never could have predicted that.

[Barrister]

Funny - my advice would be to stop using both Chrome and Flash.

That's interesting, because my advice to you would be stop using Macs and abandon Protestantism for the one true faith.

Never could have predicted that.

Well which is it?  Do you want me to abandon Protestantism, or do you want me to stay with the One True Faith?

Fucking Russians - can never make up their mind.   

[Caliga]

I just tried Chrome for the first time yesterday.  I like what I see so far.

[Norgy]

I just tried Chrome for the first time yesterday.  I like what I see so far.

Enjoy your gaping security loopholes.

[derspiess]

I just tried Chrome for the first time yesterday.  I like what I see so far.

Enjoy your gaping security loopholes.

Like what?

[DontSayBanana]

Enjoy your gaping security loopholes.

Wait, wait- are we talking about the same Chrome that still has no reported exploits?  It's a resource hog, and it's not the browser to use if you prefer to be selective about saving your history, but that's the first time I've heard it called insecure.

[Scipio]

It may be a resource hog, but it runs better than the new Firefox.  Which is slower than whatever is really fucking slow.

[viper37]

FF still has a memory leaks issues.

There's Chromium, too, wich is the basis for Chrome, but more secure as you generally have 1 or 2 versions in advance.

[jamesww]

Just use Opera.

[derspiess]

The Chromebooks ( http://www.google.com/chromebook/ ) have gotten a lot of flak, but they're very interesting in certain usage scenarios.  For my personal use I'd prefer a laptop with a 'full' OS, but for my wife who uses nothing but a web browser, it'd be perfect (assuming I can break her of her IE fixation).  The chromebook boots in 8 seconds & the Samsung versions supposedly get 8.5 hours of battery life.  Plus if you pay the ~$80 premium for 3G, you get a monthly allowance of 100mb of mobile data (pretty modest, but good enough for email & light web browsing).

It might only be a niche consumer product, but I can see it really taking off in the business & education markets.  Educational institutions and businesses can buy (lease?) chromebooks for $20/$28 a month respectively for a two-year period.  If you add up the amortized cost over 2 years, it wouldn't make a lot of sense from a consumer perspective, but since it includes full support and warranty/replacement I can see organizations buying these things to reduce their IT support budgets.

In my company, we're only supposed to use our laptops to VPN into our desktop PCs-- running anything natively on the laptop is strongly discouraged.  So a full OS and large capacity hard drive are pretty much wasted.  A cheap, thin-client laptop would fit our needs perfectly.  The only major obstacle would be that the company is extremely conservative IT-wise & it would take a lot of convincing at the top to make such a jump.