Snakes On A Plane Is For Reals, Yo

It’s not just a movie:

Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane’s instrument panel — a 4 1/2-foot black snake.

Horrible Flash Performance In Safari Is Deliberate

Watching Flash videos in Safari drives me nuts, because if the Safari window isn’t the frontmost, the frame rate drops, making the video unviewable.

Turns out it’s a feature, not a bug:

The Mozilla team also decided that plugins would get no time when they are on a hidden tab so it would not render the browser unresponsive or less responsive by adding new tabs. So do not be surprised if your SWFs and FLVs do no play on hidden tabs. Apple went even a step further in Safari: If the browser is not active, plugins will only get about 4 frames/sec, mainly to save battery and avoid the dreaded noise of the fans.

That’s all fine and wonderful, except that it makes me want to smash things. I’m a big boy. Let me pick where I want my CPU power to go.

For now, I’m using Firefox to watch videos.

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