[Discuss] os x = poop?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/11/2015 10:49 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 2/11/2015 10:27 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
>> a MB Air - the battery life is similar between OS X and Linux, which
>> is really impressive.
>
> Not really. About half of that is not shipping a Flash player with
> Safari. Apple measured an average 40% run time improvement while web
> browsing with Flash removed from first generation Airs. Don't install
> Flash for Firefox or Chrome and you'll see the same thing.
>
> The rest is Intel's work on the HD and Iris IGPs on the third and
> fourth generation Core i series CPUs. You don't need Apple-branded kit
> to get the same thing.
>
One problem here is that there are some websites that still require
flash. For instance, at work I use the vSphere web client to manage my
VMs. One of the vSphere servers won't run on Firefox because Adobe has
frozen Flash on Linux to version 11.2, so my solution is to run Chrome
on the other vsphere server that requires 11.5 or newer.

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