Shockwave Flash Crash ((hot)) Instant

For most of Flash's life, it ran as a monolithic plugin outside the sandbox. It was a single point of failure. When Flash died, it took the whole browser down with it. It wasn't until the advent of "Out-of-Process" plugins (like Chrome’s "Pepper Flash") that the browser could survive a Flash crash, giving us the polite "Sad Puzzle Piece" icon instead of a total browser freeze.

If you came of age on the internet during the 2000s or early 2010s, there is a specific sequence of events burned into your muscle memory. shockwave flash crash

Space. Jump. Another chunk falls.