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So Adobe could have fixed Flash at any time, they just didn't feel like it?

"Adobe says it has made tweaks that will shut down the Flash Player 10.1 when the system runs out of memory."

I'm not sure that I would call that fixed.

The player has had major changes in terms of memory use, frame/execution timing, and how it is suspended or not. You're taking one phrase from a non-tech person and judging from that.

I took that as a paraphrased quote from a tech journalist.

I hope you are right though.

I know from my experience with Flash on Linux that it is insane, Flash eventually consumes 4gb of memory and slows my computer to a halt. I finally just removed the plugin and browse without flash.

You can read the release notes to understand the changes, they detail them pretty well. First 7 pages are changes.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote... (PDF Link)

Also there is a huge number of bug fixes in this release... don't know why they didn't just call it Flash Player 11, it's not really a dot release.

Flash is an application platform. If it runs out of memory, it's an application that is responsible, and Flash naturally has to compensate.

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