It also indicates that Adobe don't run their code through valgrind, which would have picked this problem up.
Considering that flash is (a) security critical and (b) often full of security bugs, you'd think they might run valgrind over it once in a while.
Entirely Adobe's fault this one.
BTW with Firefox 4 the need for flash has virtually gone. All the popular video sites can play most of their videos using the native video support in the browser.
Generally no, out of the box it doesn't, things like JITs and GCs can confuse it, however it's got a bunch of flags and config options and what not to allow you to use it.
It also indicates that Adobe don't run their code through valgrind, which would have picked this problem up.
Considering that flash is (a) security critical and (b) often full of security bugs, you'd think they might run valgrind over it once in a while.
Entirely Adobe's fault this one.
BTW with Firefox 4 the need for flash has virtually gone. All the popular video sites can play most of their videos using the native video support in the browser.