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Originally Posted by tomsem
I'm a Mac user, and rarely have problems with Flash. I'm more likely to have a problem with Safari and certain web sites, but unrelated to Flash. And I really couldn't say if it is 'slow', even though I use Windows frequently also.
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This is my experience as well. Safari is just a not very good browser, and very resource intensive compared to Firefox, as well as to Chrome (also webkit). I used to have Safari as my default browser on every machine, but a few months ago, after a consistent crashes (mostly due to Java issues), I switched to Firefox.
At the time, I tested CPU and memory utilization with the different browsers on a couple of pages I use often (including my iGoogle home page), and Safari consistently came in by far the worst (the current version is better, but still not great).
I really don't have, and have never had, any Flash problems with any of my macs, including an old 1.4 Mini, which has problems doing full screen 720p H.264 video. I think some people blame Flash for unrelated problems they have with their machines, or with Safari.