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It's actually really stable on linux 32 bit. I haven't seen it crash... and i develop for it sometimes.

Have you tried playing SMB crossover with it? It crashes flash in less than 5 minutes of game play for me if I use the contra guy.

Amongst the half a dozen machines I regularly use, it crashes much more often than the browser. This includes a couple of Windows machines, where Flash is most at home!

I think it's mostly because it eats resources like it's the only thing running on my system. My fan spins up every time i try to watch a youtube clip. Oh and it does crash occasionally, although much less frequently as time goes on.

It has that reputation because it does crash. Also, Steve Jobs mentioned that it's the #1 cause of Mac crashes, and I saw someone link the Firefox crash reports that seemed to agree, too.

Just because it works well fro you doesn't mean it does for everyone else.

"Flash is crap" because it's a cpu hog, browse the web with ads on an older PC and Flash dominates the machine.