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mir91

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Registered: 2013-11-17

Posts: 143

Flash plugin continously increases CPU load up to 100%

When I start playing a youtube video or another video that uses flash on any website, it starts out ok at like 4% cpu load. However, as I keep watching, the cpu load increases continuously, until after like half an hour or an hour it always ends up using 100% of one cpu core, causing the fans to spin up.

Any way to fix this "cpu leak" of flash?

mir91

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Registered: 2013-11-17

Posts: 143

Re: Flash plugin continously increases CPU load up to 100%

Well, a "workaround" is to use Chromium, it seems.
Its integrated Flash pepper-something doesn't go to 100% cpu but behaves normally for hours.
The browser where Flash went to 100% cpu was the latest Firefox from Arch repos.

Last edited by mir91 (2014-12-11 14:11:38)

serdotlinecho

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Registered: 2013-01-26

Posts: 100

Re: Flash plugin continously increases CPU load up to 100%

You can try freshplayerplugin on Firefox if you want to use chrome pepper-flash.