(Again, this was under the well-understood, stable XP.) It's still a bit hinky in Chrome on my rig.įlash wasn't always like this. That lasted 'til sometime around the end of the year. and a week or two later, Chome's Flash implementation goes wack. Then they finally got that fixed toward the end of summer. (And if you can't write for XP, you can't write for anything.) For the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the year, it was the plugin for FF, Opera, etc, which would cause stuttering in videos and complete lockups of pages when there were multiple Flash instances. In 2012, some version of Adobe's Flash or other was broken much of the time in XP.

(Chrome and Safari are both built on the same WebKit rendering engine, but I'm thinking the Flash handling may be different, as the javascript engines are.) You have to wait for Google to update the version built in. TakisNot sure about Safari, but Firefox and Opera use Flash plug-ins, while Chrome actually builds a version of Flash into the browser. The problems seems to be related to Chrome only.

Firefox flash plugin process