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

[Hugh Caley]

Hi, Julian.  Thanks for the post, but I guess I didn't make it clear: 
this is a well known problem with using Firefox and Flash.  It's 
definitely not a problem with Firefox being big or using a lot of RAM.  
Not everyone has this problem, but there are lots of filed bugs with 
both Mozilla and Adobe about it.  And every time I've asked about it, 
I've been told that it's a Flash problem, not a Firefox problem, and I 
just don't think that's true.

Hugh

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:49:43 +0200 From: Julian Aloofi 
> <julian.fedoralists at googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Linux problems with 
> Flash in Firefox may not be Adobe's fault entirely To: 
> fedora-list at redhat.com Message-ID: 
> <1256327384.4074.1.camel at Julians-Notebook> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset="us-ascii" 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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Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
Aldon Computer Group
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Emeryville, CA 94608

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