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high CPU usage and freezing when HP Flow and Firefox are running

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This page on the HP forum summarises the problem between HP Flow and Firefox.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Audio/Flow-exe-spikes-to-20-CPU-and-causes-sporadic-windows-freeze/td-p/6483020/page/2

Is there a solution from Firefox because we've unfortunately had to resort to using Chrome [gasp] in the meantime

This page on the HP forum summarises the problem between HP Flow and Firefox. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Audio/Flow-exe-spikes-to-20-CPU-and-causes-sporadic-windows-freeze/td-p/6483020/page/2 Is there a solution from Firefox because we've unfortunately had to resort to using Chrome [gasp] in the meantime

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Hi, one suggestion was to turn Flow.exe from auto start to manual start. Which seems to be the best idea.

As to using HP software for audio/video there are other options.

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Thanks for your quick response - I will give that a try.