But there is another problem with flash as well. It is not cross-platform. Flash is stuck in a 32 bit world. A world that died in the previous century. Technology that is more than a decade out of date. The only people that use 32 bit operating systems are people that run virii that masquarade as trojans that masquerade as operating systems.
The image below is of the page at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html.
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Which is why FLOCK, a so-called social browser, fails to cut it as a social experience:
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Whilst Minefield almost passes that test:
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As does Namoroka:
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Epiphany doesn't have any issues:
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Galeon displays the same error message as firefox:
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It is hardly surprising that Konqueror exhibits the same failure to display flash:
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And for those of you who want to torture your ears, listening to what to has to have been one the worst songs to ever come out of Bulawayo, it can be found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDAPFU19GI .