BizzRoot

They install themselves, they nag you, they spam you, they beg you to sign up. They’re a pain in the browser.

The more I use Adobe Flash, the more I understand why Steve Jobs hates it. I can’t tell you how many times a misbehaving Flash video has crashed my browser and/or slowed my system to sludge. Happens at least once a week.

Google’s patching of vulnerabilities in its open source Chrome Web browser last week wasn’t so much notable in itself; Microsoft, to be sure, is forever issuing patches for the many bugs that afflict its products.

Google’s decision to push Adobe Flash security fixes using Chrome’s silent update service has yielded a seven-fold increase in patching speed, a Google software engineer said.

The good news: The new Snow Leopard patch fixes a lot of problems. The bad news: It also introduces one.