Anyone else having weird Safari problems when anything uses flash?

[aphex]

I noticed my fan kept turning now more frequently, so I kept Activity Monitor up on my 2nd screen and sure enough, any website that has flash, Safari pegs up to around 70% cpu usage and doesn't stop until I exit the site.

Anyone else?

 

[TheStu]

try it again under Firefox, I have found that flash as a whole on OS X is pretty crummy.

 

[Viper0329]

Yeah, flash is terribly written in OS X. If you want to see, head to mebeam.com and test out the video in a room by yourself. On my MBP 2.4 Core 2, it runs about 140% cpu. On windows XP, about 10%.

 

[Kmax82]

Yes, Flash is not the greatest in OS X. Really sucks since a lot of sites use Flash primarily.

 

[TheStu]

And this is why it is a good thing that the iPhone doesn't use Flash. The iPhone runs OS X, plain and simple, and if my dual core laptop gets hit hard by a flash version of portal, then imagine what an annoying ad would do to the iPhone.

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: TheStu
And this is why it is a good thing that the iPhone doesn't use Flash. The iPhone runs OS X, plain and simple, and if my dual core laptop gets hit hard by a flash version of portal, then imagine what an annoying ad would do to the iPhone.

Too true! I wholly agree, and think that Javascript is the way that the web needs to go. Either that, or Adobe needs to get its act together and develop a better version of Flash for OS X. It's ridiculous that it eats that many resources when it's playing.

 

[Kaido]

Yup, for the last week Flash stuff has been crashing my Safari & FF3. Boo, Youtube kills my browser 🙁

 

[TheStu]

I find that out of all of them, YouTube is pretty decent about keeping things in check, but some sites that stream flash video are just terrible, it will spike to 180% CPU in a few minutes, crash my internet connection and lag down my entire system.

I have actually found that for some things, the CPU usage is more consistent if I boot XP in a VM and do flash stuff there.