Great Free Tip
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| Author | Content |
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| bigg Oct 14, 2009 9:54 AM EDT |
Quoting:Free tip: Nobody cares if you use Linux/FOSS. Use it, don't use, just please spare us the windy blather. That should be posted at the top of every newbie help forum. They threaten us, "If I can't get this to work, I'm going back to Windows." That's not a threat to me, it's a threat to the poster. As for this quote, though Quoting:Try Web surfing dozens of different sites without Flash-- it might shock you how much the modern Web depends on dratted Flash. I do often surf the web without Flash installed, I see how popular Flash is, and it's almost always a better experience without Flash. |
| techiem2 Oct 14, 2009 10:17 AM EDT |
How true on both accounts. I DESPISE flash. Sure, it's fun for web videos and such, but there's obviously better ways (like embedded ogg/theora....). That and the fact that 64bit flash is horribly unstable for me (and has a habit of taking down FF with it) so I have to resort to using opera for several flash-needing sites (like Hulu)..... |
| bigg Oct 14, 2009 10:31 AM EDT |
> there's obviously better ways (like embedded ogg/theora....). It's shocking to me how much better the embedded theora videos are in Firefox 3.5 compared to Flash. |
| gus3 Oct 14, 2009 1:24 PM EDT |
s/better/bigger/ (although not like it used to be) |
| jezuch Oct 15, 2009 2:02 AM EDT |
Quoting:Try Web surfing dozens of different sites without Flash-- it might shock you how much the modern Web depends on dratted Flash. I have swfdec plugin installed and I never actually needed to turn it on (the videos start as disabled, gray boxes, you have to explicitly start them). But maybe it's the sites I visit... |
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