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Re:First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS by otto on Thursday May 20, 2010 @01:32PM (#1364588)
"Adobe says it has made tweaks that will shut down the Flash Player 10.1 when the system runs out of memory."

I'm not sure that I would call that fixed.

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Re:First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS by not_an_alien on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:33PM (#1364828)
The player has had major changes in terms of memory use, frame/execution timing, and how it is suspended or not. You're taking one phrase from a non-tech person and judging from that.
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Re:First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS by otto on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:36PM (#1364842)
I took that as a paraphrased quote from a tech journalist.

I hope you are right though.

I know from my experience with Flash on Linux that it is insane, Flash eventually consumes 4gb of memory and slows my computer to a halt. I finally just removed the plugin and browse without flash.

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Re:First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS by cjbos on Thursday May 20, 2010 @04:24PM (#1365233)
You can read the release notes to understand the changes, they detail them pretty well. First 7 pages are changes.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote... (PDF Link)

Also there is a huge number of bug fixes in this release... don't know why they didn't just call it Flash Player 11, it's not really a dot release.

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Re:First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS by DrSprout on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:37PM (#1364850)
Flash is an application platform. If it runs out of memory, it's an application that is responsible, and Flash naturally has to compensate.
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