Agree that Mr. Narayan comment was not a great one but he has a point. Userland applications should not crash the operating system. If Mr. Jobs meant: "No. 1 cause of Safari crashes" then I would agree with Mr. Jobs because Flash does crashes Safari a lot. This means that both Safari and Flash have pending bugs to be fixed (I wonder which one has more bugs per line of code?)
It isn't the OS that crashes, it is only the Flash process (in OSX 10.6). In 10.5 it runs in the same process as Safari, so in 10.5 the Safari browser crashes when Flash dies.
Safari itself is impressively stable, even the pre-betas.
I'm just curious what sites people visit that flash is constantly crashing for them? I visit a fair amount of flash video content sites on a daily basis and I get a flash crash maybe once every two months? Firefox on Vista, latest versions.
Flash crashes for me at least once a day, on Youtube. I'm using a Mac here though, using chrome. I'm guessing the flash implementation for windows is significantly more stable than on mac/linux.
