Linux problems with Flash in Firefox may not be Adobe's fault entirely

[Julian Aloofi]

Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 12:47 -0700 schrieb Hugh Caley:
> I can't use Firefox in Fedora for more than a few minutes; after that
> Firefox will be sucking up about 100% of my CPU until I kill it and
> start over.  Using the Flash Block addon keeps me going for a few more
> minutes, but eventually it'll still get hosed.
> 
> However, Chromium (the build of the open source parts of Google
> Chrome) does not seem to have this problem.  I can view as much Flash
> and YouTube content as I want and it's fine.
> 
> Now, pretty much everyone told me this was a problem with the Flash
> plugin, end of story, but since it works fine for me under Chromium, I
> have to wonder if that is really true.
> 
> Chromium is still buggy, of course, but ... at least I can run it all
> day without making my F11 machine unusable.
> 
> Hugh

Firefox is not the most performant browser, so if you're running out of
CPU/RAM you should eventually try another browser which is more
lightweight. Galeon is very similar to Firefox.
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