Is Flash a motherfucker of a resource hog or do I just have a shitty PC?
Actually I know I have a shitty PC, but still. If I open multiple tabs containing flash in firefox (particularly certain ebay auctions using flash based "auction tools", when I'm often going to open multiple auction pages to compare them), it'll usually use 99% CPU and slowing everything to a barely usable crawl. Even one page with flash ads, if I leave it open for a while, can end up absolutely raping the thing.
So yeah, is it Flash or is it me?
it's flash.
having a better computer just means it takes longer for it to get bad enough that you actually notice it.
also, they keep increasing the side of that plug-in by leaps and bonds.
an old NPSWF32.dll from 2000 : 245,760 bytes
a 2005 NPSWF32.dll : 827,392 bytes
latest NPSWF32.dll : 2,115,816 bytes !
There's always Gnash... http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>>5 lol that uses 1000% CPU
>>6 Then get a different program to monitor your CPU, because clearly it's bullshitting if it says it uses 1,000% CPU time. ;-)
It works okay for me on Linux/MIPS. (Lemote Fulong MiniPC)
gnash isn't finished yet. how well supported is youtube?
I just installed this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
prevents flash from loading by default, which as a frequent user of a few flash-ad-using sites i find extremely useful - it's already made a very noticeable difference to cpu and memory usage during web browsing. if you want to view it you just click on the icon where the flash content would be.
so far i've found the only places i actually needed to activate flash have been youtube, the occasional timewasting flash game/animation, and stupid corporate/marketing websites, which account for a tiny portion of my overall web usage.