|IE6 occasionally crashes when I visit some websites.
| Jim Fisher
|
Serves you right for using The World's WORST Browser.

|It seems to have something to do with the flash player.
|
If you used a Gecko-based browser (Firefox, etc.),
you could use the FlashBlock extension to block that junk
(99.999% of which is crap advertising) and *selectively* view what you want.[1]
Using Firefox/FlashBlock would cut down on bandwidth demands
and on waits for USELESS junk on page loads
--not to mention eliminating the crashes.

|It happens when SOME sites have a flash object
|or when a certain ad appears in my Yahoo mail.
|
Having to wait for ads is so 1999.
Allowing yourself to be inconvenienced by malformed junk on sites
--when you aren't even interested in that junk--is even more lame.
(See Firefox, above.)

This on top of the fact that Macromedia/Adobe Flash is A SECURITY NIGHTMARE.
cache of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Adobe_Flash#Local_Shared_Objects

**Serious Flash (ActionScript) Vulnerabilities (With NO PATCHES AVAILABLE)** 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/flash_vulnerability_menace

**Flash Now Includes a Privacy-Invasion "Feature" (Local Shared Objects)**
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/177238mode=nested&threshold=5#12135251

...and there is no reason to use the bloated, insecure crapware
that Macromedia/Adobe tries to push on you either: 
cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video


[1] The AdBlock and NoScript extensions further improve your browsing experience
...and you will LOVE Tabbed Browsing.

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