Why is Adobe Flash Player so shitty? Yet so essential?

Why is Adobe Flash Player so shitty? Yet so essential?

>adobe

>essential

>Yet so essential
literal what

A lot of eroge are made in flash

>Flash
>essential
OP is clearly stuck in the last decade

>Yet so essential
u wot

is there a way to watch youtube/ use pandora without flash? I use Debian btw

YouTube hasn't used flash for ages

Why even use Pandora?

HTML5 but honestly I hate all of that software. Doesn't really make sense to watch videos on a web browser. Youtube is kind of nice sometimes though, I guess.

I use it to watch leafy

>Doesn't really make sense to watch videos on a web browser.
Elaborate that shit.

>post 2001 adobe

do you recall?

Pithos for Pandora

Youtube uses html5

Why is Microsoft Windows so shitty? Yet so essential

It'll die soon

HTML5 for life my man

thank you

Macromedia Flash

You joke?

no, srs

no

>essential
wew, I don't think I've been using flash for 5+ years now

imposter

Why? Of all the YouTubers, hes the worst. Only 16 year olds watch him. Its obvious his hate vids are fake and all he does is argue incorrectly.

>Macromedia

Uninstalled Flash for the last time in `08, never looked back.

From a security standpoint, and based on frequency of critical vulns, it is the single worst piece of software ever written.

>YouTube uses html5
>videos play within flash
kill yourself you're not trolling anybody here.

youtube.com/html5

Tube porn and other low-budget porno content. It's the only reason flash continues to exist at all.
HTML5 video is just not quite as operator friendly for an embedded advertising and malware delivery platform.

>worst piece of software ever written.
It's so bad that it makes you wonder if it was intentional

This picture triggers me.

It's still the simplest and easiest software to quickly prototype/make games that are playable in a browser.

>Why is Adobe Flash Player so shitty?
Because it was never meant to be a fucking video format, it's supposed to be used only for vector graphics and vector moving images, nothing else. Macromedia knew what they were doing but when Adobe took over they fucked Flash good and hard and turned it into something it was never supposed to be.

>Yet so essential?
Funny, I haven't installed the Flash Player on my current Windows 7 Pro install, haven't had any situations where it's absolutely required as most of the decent websites now use HTML5 and it works great without issues.

If I visit someplace that requires Flash Player well, fuck 'em, I guess I just miss out on that content so whatever.

No I don't use Chrome either, I use Firefox as my primary browser, so heavily customized it's practically a new version altogether but it works great for me, has 29 addons/extensions, 14 user scripts, and it still fucking loads in under 2 seconds every god damned time. Last crash according to the Health report thing? August 2013 and it's portable, has been for 6 fucking years and upgraded through every version till what I use now which is FirefoxESR 45.2.

Works for me, the fuck if I care about anybody else.

But Flash? Definitely needs to be ended, and soon, Adobe knows this and it's in the works.

Flash was already a video populated format LONG before Adobe bought it.

People used Dreamweaver to make videos and videos only for the longest time.
Heck, even back when Flash videos was stored in the exe file.
Just look at how South Park started.

Youtube even used a flash codec but renamed it *.ytv, and *.flv, before going over to mp4 codecs.

There is no replacement for Flash videos yet since svg ain't a good solution for videos yet.
That is vector based videos.

That and because a video game in a single file is damn convenient and HTML5 ain't looking so bright on that part.

Flash is acutally a cool technology. That's why adobe got it from Macromedia in the first place..

Esepcially Apache Flex is good, that's why it's a top level project there.

But there were also some Problems in the past, especially with their cookies. And then some Big companies decided to destroy Flash and the sheep think it's a crowd-based idea..

Sad story.

this
html5/js interactive shit still runs worse than flash games from 5+ years ago

Makes sense to use a media player for media... not a web browser. You can stream with mpv if you really want to.

unity?

>Dreamweaver

wat, i thought Dreamweaver is for websites?!

No, many websites for legal things actually require you to use flash. OP isn't stuck behind, all the websites that require it are.

It's popular so it gets attacked a lot (security wise), so people gotta hate it!

I started my adventure with programming with ActionScript on an old Flash MX, it's nostalgia tech for me. Not even mentioning the vast amount of chan-releated OC. I can't deal with it dying.

pls no kill flash

I no use it

South park uses some 3D animating software. When it started it used construction paper and stop motion. They never used flash.

>Why is Adobe Flash Player so shitty?
Because it was made by one company with no open standards
>Yet so essential?
Because, back in the day, it provided a shit ton of features that HTML didn't. HTML5 is *still* only just playing catchup.

Why? It's completely accurate.

Go back to the kiddie table with the other libertarians. Moron.

It's essential if you want to use anything other than Chrome and watch Netflix or other such services that still use flash.

Feels good to be Chrome masterrace. Installs in a second and everything just works immediately with no work needed.

>Because it was made by one company with no open standards

Flash was not created by Adobe, you stupid fucking person.

>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all

>It's essential if you want to use anything other than Chrome
no it's not

t. memefox user

I need Adobe Flash for some of the NSFW sites I frequent!

A lot of people are way too hard on Flash.

No wonder it's so exploited, it's been around since the 90s. It may not be coded the best, but it was the best alternative to loading high-quality video for low-quality systems.

It's like pissing on COBALT or something, things are supposed to get better. Doesn't detract from the past's success

>>Because it was made by one company with no open standards
>Flash was not created by Adobe, you stupid fucking person.

I didn't see where user said it was created by Adobe, you stupid fucking autist.

Essential? In relation to what? Are you certain that you have any clue at all about what you are whining about here?

>flash
>essential
what year is this?

Episodes was on the internet in the form of flash in it's initial state.
If you used internet back then you opened up South park with this icon.
I don't mean how THEY made it, but how it was distributed around the web back then.
Flash isn't an Adobe product, it's been a Macromedia product that Adobe bought up, but I guess the majority of Sup Forums users didn't even browse the web during the time Macromedia actually owned Flash and Shockwave.

it's not.

This.
It's not shitty, but it is essential.