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1. ADOBE FLASH PLAY FOR MAC NOT SHOWING UNDER APPLICATIONS MAC OS X
2. ADOBE FLASH PLAY FOR MAC NOT SHOWING UNDER APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE

ADOBE FLASH PLAY FOR MAC NOT SHOWING UNDER APPLICATIONS MAC OS X

As for why such crash resistance was worth implementing, Serlet explained that, based on data from the Crash Reporter application built into Mac OS X - the thing that asks if you’d like to send crash data to Apple after a crash - the most frequent cause of crashes across all of Mac OS X are (or at least were, pre-Snow Leopard) “plugins”. Serlet’s stated reason on stage was “crash resistance”, as mentioned above.

You get a broken little rectangle in the page where the plugin was executing, but the browser itself stays running.Īpple did this for two reasons. Rather than run within Safari’s application process, web content plugins now run in their own process, so if they crash, they (usually) don’t crash Safari itself.

ADOBE FLASH PLAY FOR MAC NOT SHOWING UNDER APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE

On stage at the WWDC 2009 keynote address last June, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet was explaining the new web content plugin mechanism for Safari in Snow Leopard.

(And good for them for asking I’m not sure what I was thinking including that without sourcing it.) Several readers asked me for the source for my accusation contained in that last sentence, that Flash is the “leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X”. Of application crashes on Mac OS X is a component that Apple Is slow, they can optimize or re-write it. Many low-level OS components are open source. That’s not to say they wrote the whole thing from To my knowledge, Apple controls the entire source code to the On Flash and Mac OS X Application Crashes My fascination with the subject is fueled by the fact that it’s so polarizing, and that it encompasses both technical and political issues. I’ve been writing about this saga for two years. One group is going to be very surprised come Wednesday. You can see both reactions represented in the thread on my piece at Hacker News. Reaction to this was polarized - typically either “duh, of course it won’t” or “no way, it has to support Flash”. In my “ Tablet Musings” piece two weeks ago, I speculated that Apple’s imminent tablet probably won’t support Flash, for all the same reasons the iPhone doesn’t. Apple, Adobe, and Flash Monday, 25 January 2010