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Craig Hockenberry and I invaded John Gruber and Dan Benjamin’s show yesterday and talked about the upcoming Mac App Store and Flash.

I’m following Gruber’s lead and trying to run without Flash. It’s interesting so far — most notably, Safari is much faster and more stable without it.

With Flash removed from the Internet Plugins folder, Firefox won’t have it, either, but Chrome will (it comes with its own version), so I just fire up Chrome if I really need a Flash page and keep Safari fast and stable for everything else. So far, I like it. But it still feels a little extreme, like disabling Javascript, and I know I’ll run into minor inconveniences on a regular basis — but beachballing and crashing my browser are major inconveniences that I’m happy to avoid.