[OLPC-AU] Adobe Flash and battery drain
Sridhar Dhanapalan
sridhar at laptop.org.au
Mon Nov 8 09:10:21 EST 2010
Using the Adobe Flash Player can dramatically increase battery drain:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/lack-of-flash-gives-macbook-air-two-extra-hours-of-battery-life
Browse has a neat feature that only loads Flash content if it is
clicked on. When the content is playing, however, all bets are off.
This is something deployments should consider.
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