If it crashes you:<p>$ lynx --dump <a href="http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/" rel="nofollow">http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/</a><p><pre><code> If you are reading this from a browser using Adobe's Flash Player
plug-in (i.e., if you see a blue rectangle below), it will probably
crash within the next few seconds. :-(
[EMBED]
"Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with
any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem
historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today,"
Lynch wrote. "Addressing crash issues is a top priority in the
engineering team, and currently there are open reports we are
researching in Flash Player 10."
[1]Adobe Defends Flash, Calls Apple Uncooperative
This page exploits a bug that I reported to Adobe in September 2008,
and has affected every release of Flash on every platform since then.
Despite numerous email exchanges with the Flash product manager about
the bug, the bug report being hidden from the public for "security"
reasons, and Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch's claims otherwise, it continues to
be an issue.
* [2]Original Bugtraq posting
* [3]CVE-2008-4546
* [4]Link to Adobe JIRA bug report (not accessible to the public
anymore)
_________________________________________________________________
Email: Matthew Dempsky <[5]matthew@dempsky.org>; Twitter: [6]@mdempsky
</code></pre>
References<p><pre><code> 1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358815,00.asp
2. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496929/100/0/threaded
3. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4546
4. http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-677
5. mailto:matthew@dempsky.org
6. http://twitter.com/mdempsky</code></pre>
Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now?<p>Midori does insta-crash though.
ClickToFlash for Safari/Webkit on Mac is one of the best add-ons I've found.<p><a href="http://clicktoflash.com/" rel="nofollow">http://clicktoflash.com/</a>
<a href="http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash</a>
Yup, crash on mine. WebKit nightly on OSX, everything up-to-date. Thankfully, it just crashes the plugin (though it holds up the browser for a bit), everything keeps working.
I confirmed the crash on iCab 5.0.7 Mac, Firefox 3.6 Mac, Safari 4.0.4 Mac and Firefox 3.5.7 under Ubuntu 9.10 in Virtual Box 3.1.2. (Using latest updated Snow Leopard)
It's always nice to see bugs are addressed quickly . . . which Is why I'm not really surprised, Adobe products have always had a clunky feel to me and Flash was genuinely a product destined for them.
You know this whole Flash debacle is a real shame because Flash, at least the concept of Flash, is really a great idea with lots of potential.<p>Flash allows people to create wonderful things (just visit newgrounds.com) but Adobe's lack of commitment to improving it is dragging it down and could be its unfortunate downfall.
Why are Flash's bugs only a problem when when Steve Jobs mentions it? Is Flash really a problem or are we just overcome by Job's reality distortion field?<p>Flash does stuff that HTML cannot currently do. In this respect hackers should thank Adobe as Flash helped move applications off the desktop and onto the web. When HTML5 has matured, the gaps in HTML will be filled and unless Flash has something new to offer, it will be time for give it a heartfelt goodbye.<p>Adobe's saving grace is that it released FABridge - you can use Flash for things its good at Ajax for everything else. Then when HTML5 has matured you wont have to rewrite everything.