Adobe has been on my crap list for a while. Adobe Flash is unbearably slow, it drags my performance of my PC down to crawl. I ensure my PC is updated on a regular basis and I apply the patches when they release them, but all it ever seems to do is get worse.

I’ve a plug-in for Firefox that monitors web pages for changes; one of those pages is Adobe Flash 64-bit. I’ve my page updater tell me when certain pages gets updates. The other day I got a notice that the page had been updated- I very excited; did something happen?

No. Yes- kinda.

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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…

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I’ve my PC and like a lot of other users out there, it’s a 64-bit machine and in a lot of cases, as it pertains to software, it‘s fine, but this is seriously handicapped when you’re talking about hardware. It’s a whole new ball game when your talking new hardware; it’s about the hardware drivers.

I was in the market the other day for a new TV tuner, and I was really looking to try to get one to review and see if it’s going to be something I wanted to keep.

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You’ve got to be kidding me. 64-bit machines have [not are] flooded the market. Everyone has witnessed the flood of 64-bit systems to the market and yet there’s no 64-bit FLASH player!

Nah, forget it Internet Explorer users I’m not even discussing Internet Explorer. Just about as far as anyone cares, that browser is dead. Even a person that missed passing his SAT’s by 2400 point knows NOT to use Internet Explorer.

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One of the things I hate the most about Internet Explorer  the auto installation of program and functions I didn’t ask for. Basically the additional security problems they present without asking the user.

Leave it to Microsoft to inject more of these poisonous practices in the name of good intentions. I think everything they screw up is in that category.

Well, I’m a victim as much as the net guru, or noobie, but I allowed Microsoft to install it’s .NET framework and I didn’t even notice. And then I found this post.

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I keep checking on the latest versions of Firefox ‘Minefield’ and in some respects that’s what it is a minefield.

Firefox is no doubt well established and has a wide array of plug-ins that make it super adaptable to just about anything and everything you need to do with your web browser. And all these functions and nifty features are based on people that were nice enough to donate their time and code to making it that great.

But there’s a problem, Minefield is having to put these same open source loving people back to work to revise or recode their extensions to handle a 64-bit world. Firefox is the most popular browser in Europe and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has shown poor acceptance since it’s release; even with Microsoft pushing it as a ‘CRITICAL UPDATE’ for the Windows Operating System.

It’s no lie, 64-bit is here to stay and by no means is it on it’s heels. No; it’s got it’s running shoes and and it’s digging in for a nice long run if the 32-bit era has any example to throw to this. We won’t see 128-bit systems for a very long time.

The thing I love about Minefield it’s fast and it’s Firefox; and faster than Chrome. While it’s wrong to simply come out and cry foul cause there’s not all the popular plug-ins for Minefield, there are some coming in slowly. And you’re not going to get me to switch to Google’s Chrome. Even on my site, I only have 1% of the traffic coming to my site using Google’s Chrome; it still has a long way to go.

The market is steadily being flowed with 64-bit systems and while some systems run fine, running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit Operating System, other have disruptive problems and it’s usually the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, but not before.

I’ll keep watching…

Thanks for reading!

Enjoy. 

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