I have always regarded
Flash, Acrobat, QuickTime and Java as "necessary evils" on my laptop, since I do a lot of browsing. But they are a pain to keep up to date, especially since they are full of security flaws.
But recently I realised that I only ever use
Flash from within
Google Chrome, and I'm not using
Sun Java for anything now that
LogMeIn doesn't require it any more. So I decided to remove both
Flash and
Java from my "Installed Programs" list, and rely entirely on the version of
Flash that comes with
Chrome. So far so good, since
Chrome updates it automatically.
I wish I could do the same with
Quicktime, but I still use
iTunes from time to time. I have, however, disabled the
RealPlayer add-ins on
Chrome, Firefox and
IE. That's more legacy software out of the way.
Another thing I noticed was that
Google Chrome loads quickly but takes a long time to show all the thumbnails in its "New Tab" screen. So I changed it to show the "about:version" screen on startup instead. It's even quicker than before. And I have installed the
NotScript extension to protect me from unwanted scripts, and
AdBlock Plus to hide the ads. This had made my browser even better.
Hopefully Google will abandon their "flat" logo they are currently playing with in Chrome 12, because it looks terrible at small sizes, but we'll see. Both logos are shown here.
I have always regarded Flash, Acrobat, QuickTime and Java as "necessary evils" on my laptop, since I do a lot of browsing. But they are a pain to keep up to date, especially since they are full of security flaws.
Another thing I noticed was that Google Chrome loads quickly but takes a long time to show all the thumbnails in its "New Tab" screen. So I changed it to show the "about:version" screen on startup instead. It's even quicker than before. And I have installed the NotScript extension to protect me from unwanted scripts, and AdBlock Plus to hide the ads. This had made my browser even better.
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