German news paper F.A.Z. and Mercedes-Benz demonstrate today together why Adobe Flash is often seen as bad
Update:
18.11.2011 MacBook Air battery time reduced by Flash comment added
Go today to www.faz.net and see how a flash advertisement can make use of 50% of your CPU.
To paraphrase the text of the ad: Please Mercedes-Benz continue to “search for the best solution”, also for your web advertisement technology. Thank you.
arstechnica.com is providing the following additional insight about Flash
“Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably—as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the CPU running far more than seemed necessary, and the best time I recorded with Flash installed was just 4 hours. After deleting Flash, however, the MacBook Air ran for 6:02h”
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