Adobe Flash severly slows/crashes my system. Are there any alternatives or ways to prevent Flash from using 80% of my processor time?
The problem exists in both IE8 and FF4. I have searched the internet looking to fix this to no avail. Most forums have lengthy discussions on how Flash10 is resorce hungry and how unresponsive Adobe is to complaints but there is little explination on how to aleviate the problem. It is most notable when playing Facebook games when they start to slow the system, then eventually I have to close and restart FF to unfreeze the animation and start again. I have looked for an alternative Flash plugin but there doesn't seem to be. Does Adobe really have the monopoly on this one?
Opaite Mbohovái (5)
Yep, Adobe has a monopoly for Flash, on Windows at least. Linux users have alternative programs to run Flash presentations. I use WinXP on my desktop PC and Ubuntu on my EeePC netbook.
Try reinstalling the previous version of Flash - 10.1 r 102 and get rid of that 10.2 r152 version. I always wait to update plugins to see what problems other Firefox users may have. I'm gonna skip this version and wait for the 10.3 version to see if that is any better.
http://www.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?old_flash_player=19
scroll down to
Download Flash Player 10.1 (Non-IE Browsers)
or from Adobe
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html
In responce to 'the-edmeister' - I tried your fix and it made a minor inprovement. My computer still slows some of the time but craches less often, and usually on selected sites. I tried to go older but version 9 seems to be nolonger supported by many sites. I'm wondering if these newer versions of many programs and pluging assume you have a multi-core processor and my lonely single core cannot cope as well as it could a year ago.
I have found the latest version has helped speed up the load time and CPU use down, but flash is unreliable as some times it can be down to slow pc performance, internet speed and badly coded flash objects.
I have a high peformance PC and i find that the flash adverts jumping around the place and playing videos can make flash slow.
My laptop just don't like HD stuff and full screen.
Linux hates to be zoomed in to a page and lots of flash objects too.
Realy im waiting for HTML5 to wipe out flash, yes flash has done well but i feel that its another usles program running (but thats comming from my web doveloper side xD)
Anyone know why Flash starts to hog the resources? Is it connected to anything else? I can't use Yahoo with IE:9 .. just too slow.
There is also a big memory leak with yahoo running on at least three browsers, firefox, ie, chrome.
Still a bit of a hog but have found Flash 11 better than 10, especially as it also comes in 32bit and 64bit flavours. Have also had more success under Ubuntu than Windows versions of browsers.