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Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.



komodo wrote:
On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 20:57:22 Angus Auld wrote:
--- Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr>

wrote:
Angus Auld wrote:
This are just my observations and experiences with
Flash-player and Linux of late.
I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and
the

fact that many websites are using (over-using?)
Flash

animations, etc. makes it quite important, at
least to

me, that my browser be Flash-friendly.
Adobe, in their wisdom, decided to only support
gtk

browsers in their latest release, so that has left
Opera (my browser of choice), pretty much out in
the

cold, at least for Opera 9.2x versions and
earlier.

Opera is trying to work around this in their
9.50Beta,

soon to be released.
However, I have noted, the latest version of
Flash-player does not seem to be playing well with
Iceweasel either.
It consistently causes Iceweasel to consume 80%+
cpu

cycles when viewing Flash vids...sometimes upwards
of

100%!
To me this is unacceptable. I have downgraded to
an

earlier version of the plugin (9.0 r48), and
things

are a bit better in terms of cpu usage and
view-ability of videos.

Anyone else noting this may want to consider
downgrading Flash-player as well.
I have tried various installations of the plugin
using

Adobe's tar.gz, and binary .deb installs, without
any

improvement.

Best regards.
You might have seen my memo with subject "Flash
Player 9 (9,0,115,0)
with Iceweasel or Firefox (& even konqueror)" a bit
above and also I
noticed the same type of CPU usage....

JL
Yes Jean, we seem to be experiencing similar problems
with Flash Player 9,0,115,0.
I too have had lock-ups where killing Opera or
Iceweasel has been the only option. I am using
Dreamlinux, a Debian Etch based distro with xfce4
desktop.
As far as I'm concerned, on my system, Flash Player 9
in its latest version, is unusable.
I thought I would give Opera 9.50 Beta a go, and check
the performance of the latest Flash Player. Opera is
working to try to get around the "gtk browsers only
support" in there latest version. Well, it was not any
better...high cpu consumption and occasional browser
lockup.
This is disappointing. Disabling Flash would really
put a damper on my internet experience. :(

Using the older FP 9.0 r48 is getting me by, for the
time being at least.

Best regards.


--
Angus

"All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, appear
to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and
enslave mankind - and to monopolize power and profit."
--
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

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Hi, i had this problem too. CPU usage 40-80%. But since i changed flash to version 9.0 r48, CPU usage is in normal, about 2-3% and when youtube is loaded and video is playing then 20-30%, and browser seems to be fast and usable.

Thanks for hint :-)

Martin


To all,

thanks for the advise I'm going to downgrade ASAP Have a nice weekend

Regards,
JL


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