Hmm.. I think I might have meant to respond to someone else, the amazon response was meant for someone who specifically mentioned amazon, but I don't see any mention of it in this thread, aside from mine!

So, let the records show I visit many sites, not just amazon.

Flash is generally always "playing", whether you see pictures moving around or not. I don't generally see fit to blame the browser for what I see as a Flash problem, be it poorly written applets or an unoptimized/buggy/whatever Flash plugin.

Disabling the Flash component is 3 clicks, if I recall correctly, but I suspect we'll have a proper extension at some point. I tried using some greasemonkey scripts so I could just tap on the Flash of interest, but those unfortunately didn't work so well; I guess greasemonkey loads the entire page first before loading the scripts.

Selectively enabling Flash is my workaround, it may not be a solution for you, if not, then I apologize for my absurd suggestion.

I was merely trying to help.

User experience and usability are very important to me, I just think some have unreasonable expectations.

Was Flash performance really better in Opera? As I've said before, I didn't use Opera for long, but I seem to recall Flash not working nearly as well as it does in microB.

It could certainly be faster, and I expect it to get faster.