not his history, his current session, like I currently have 3 windows open with 3,5 and 7 tabs, I would be very pissed if that went AWOL because some software decided what it was doing was more important. 

So reopen from history. And nuke Flash.

Kinda agree. Flash and Java, it seems every few days there's a new update. I either get nagged or can't open a video because I've got the wrong version installed.

Is it that bugged? How much more can it be 'improved' ?

And no, I don't want a virus scanner or toolbar. I just want to be able to watch an embedded video without having to exit the browser, install an update and then find my way back to the page I was viewing.

I use Chrome's built-in Flash player, seems to solve that particular issue. I only remember when I've got Firefox open sometimes and it whinges about Flash not being installed for some pages.

Like you say, it's the opt-out toolbars and AV that I really fucking hate.

Yeah, that was another thing that hurt when I realised that  it was downloading additional crap because I hadn't opted out. So I had to cancel and start the download over again.