Hulu will work for a few minutes before I get the beach ball. Other flash videos will play for a few seconds, then stop and never finish. However Netflix in Safari and the Hulu application work fine. I'm up to date on my flash player and Safari.
I just updated flash earlier today. I'm still having the same issues. I haven't gotten firefox yet. I'll download it and see what happens.
Edit: Firefox seems to work perfectly with all my videos. I guess I'll have to use it instead. I did like the top sites thing that safari does though.
I'm using both: Safari and Firefox.
And I don't have so many crashes (if any). I can't say that one is more reliable than the other.
BTW this thread should stay in the software section ...