With the devices I've used, I find that flash content loads and runs just fine provided that there's at most one running on each page and it doesn't crash. Gra

With the devices I've used, I find that flash content loads and runs just fine provided that there's at most one running on each page and it doesn't crash. Granted, I find myself enabling Adblock by default on most sites because most ads nowadays are annoying Flash pop-overs. Back in the day, the Linux implementation of Flash didn't support making the Flash embed transparent, so I had to go into Firebug/Web Inspector and delete the embed/object tags entirely just to read the page. While I think that particular bug has been fixed, even today, most of the Chrome tab crashes I run into are still caused by Flash crashing. It really bothers me how much stuff depends on Flash still, whether it's putting something in the clipboard from the browser, or just Google Hangouts or Facebook deciding to play a "ping!" when a notification goes off. The only thing "HTML5" means to me is that my ARM devices can offload H.264 video decoding to the GPU, rather than trying to run a cross-compiled Sorenson decoder on the (relatively underpowered) CPU. Everything else under the "HTML5" banner seems to be just increasingly complicated browser-specific extensions to JavaScript and/or CSS. I've also noticed that the Chromebook and Chrome for Android will deallocate tabs that I haven't used recently and reload them when I switch to them, which lets me have dozens of tabs "open" on devices which are otherwise only capable of handling three or four tabs at once. Of course, this is only reasonable because of "high speed internet"; I remember being on dial-up in the late 90s running Internet Explorer 4 and opening ten windows in the background so that the pages would pre-load in the background while I read the current page.