Adobe flash is a web standard for creating highly interactive environments inside a web browser; covering everything from video to interactive games.

Just about every website you go to nowadays utilizes Adobe’s flash player. And in addition to the lack of support for 64-bit systems, the latest version of Adobe flash utilizes CPU of the PC 90-100%.

The downside to Adobe flash is that Adobe is the only provider for this environment. Unlike some other products where you can choose an alternative viewer for PDFs, or playing videos, but with Adobe flash you have to have the Adobe flash player…

Over the past couple weeks I’ve noticed a growing pattern of CPU usage anytime I visit a website that utilizes Adobe flash elements.

This is an example of the average user complaining about the CPU usage of Adobe flash.

Adobe is exhibiting a trending behavior that they just don’t care about users. Adobe and Microsoft have something in common; they are constantly trying to dictate how the Internet operates and because of their dominance and position- they are virtually untouchable.

Regardless of the Web browser that you’re using, you’re going to be affected by this problem.

Adobe’s position is to download the latest version and install it; everyone is doing this and having the same results so simply upgrading the software is not resolving the problem. Adobe’s lack of attention to customer complaints seem to be the company’s legacy of action.

This again is Adobe telling the population that this is your problem, not ours, and that we make the rules- and were going to do, what were going to do..

The amount of frustration over this type of issue is immeasurable. Adobe flash, the required web application for just about every machine on the Internet, is flawed; it maxes out the CPU and Adobe is taking the position that it’s the website, it’s the hosting, it’s the programming it’s the users PCs resources problem.

I’m in the category of the typical user and I have bared witness to the CPU cycles run amok on my system and I have a 64-bit system; here’s my specs…

Acer Aspire x1200
Dual Core 4850
4gb 6400 DDR Mem
NVidia 8200 onboard video
320gb HD space
Vista 64 Home Premium SP1

There’s no way you’re going to convince me that this system is lacking in system resources. I have a dual processor, 64 bit, 4 GB of memory- it’s not a resource issue.

Another problem also bothers me with Adobe is their uncanny ability to include, and bloat out the code, of their applications. A perfect example of this type of problem with the Adobe reader. Adobe reader is an application that should be able to read PDF files, and the reality is that Adobe reader is approximately 45 MB- just to read a PDF file. I don’t know about anyone else, but I find this extremely excessive.

Would you like an option of FLASH players [Adobe vs Someone Else]?

• I never use FLASH components.
• Yes - Adobe should not be only option.
• No - Adobe has done good so far.

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Adobe has yet to release a 64-bit version of Flash that works on a Windows platform.

I’m, as many, ready to switch to something else, anything else, if I could just replace Adobe with something else.

What do you think, would you like an option for a FLASH player?

Thanks,
L. Henry Jr.
http://www.lehsys.com

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