I think if any one of you would put a watt-meter on your computer when looking at flash enabled pages it would scare you.

And GPU acceleration does not help the watt usage.

Flash can be good for some things. But developers should make sure to have a timeout - so after x min of inactivity the animation stops or webbrowser window out of focus - then all flash should stop.

On my notebook (QX9300 based quad core) accidentally leaving the browser on a flash enabled pages decreases battery time by anywhere from 30-60% in Google Chrome and IE.

So what will that do to your true multitasking N900 handset?

On my 6 core i980 - wattage goes from 120watt to 190 watt when browser is on a page with flash adverts only - and that is with GPU acceleration.

So flash is not green for anyone else than Adobe....

I agree that flash is kind of unavoidable - but please developers - think about your consumers and make your apps easy as possible on the consumers power consumption.

So im in NO hurry to get better flash or even have flash on a mobile device like N900 that already suffers from bad battery life.