Flash Player Too Slow in Safari
I've had this problem ever since I can remember, and I'm not sure why.
Anytime a website has flash on it, whether it be a flash-based website or a Youtube video, Safari cannot handle it. Although Safari rarely crashes when it comes to something that is flash-based, it is VERY jerky and slow.
For example, with a Youtube video, if I were to have the entire video load/buffer and then press play, the video would be jerky and lagging, but the audio would work just fine.
With a flash-based website, Safari is very jerky with the image, but the audio is fine. Take http://www.wonka.com/ for example. When the site loads, the music starts and plays just fine, but the image of the hat flying across the screen is jerky, and it takes much longer than it should to get to its final position before all the confetti comes flying out of the hat (also very slowly). Additionally, the text in the upper left hand corner of the screen ascends very slowly and jerkily, rather than quickly and smooth.
Whenever something flash-based loads in Safari, the CPU maxes out at 100% in Activity monitor (with %User hovering around 60% and %System hovering around 40%). This is just unnacceptable. I have had much slower computers that run Windows but can handle a Youtube video or flash-based website perfectly.
My iMac specs can be seen below. Does anyone know what might be wrong?
(On a side note, Firefox isn't AS jerky with flash as Safari is, but it still is not as fast as it should be. I think that isolates the issue as a system processing problem or a flash problem, as opposed to a browser problem.)
Anytime a website has flash on it, whether it be a flash-based website or a Youtube video, Safari cannot handle it. Although Safari rarely crashes when it comes to something that is flash-based, it is VERY jerky and slow.
For example, with a Youtube video, if I were to have the entire video load/buffer and then press play, the video would be jerky and lagging, but the audio would work just fine.
With a flash-based website, Safari is very jerky with the image, but the audio is fine. Take http://www.wonka.com/ for example. When the site loads, the music starts and plays just fine, but the image of the hat flying across the screen is jerky, and it takes much longer than it should to get to its final position before all the confetti comes flying out of the hat (also very slowly). Additionally, the text in the upper left hand corner of the screen ascends very slowly and jerkily, rather than quickly and smooth.
Whenever something flash-based loads in Safari, the CPU maxes out at 100% in Activity monitor (with %User hovering around 60% and %System hovering around 40%). This is just unnacceptable. I have had much slower computers that run Windows but can handle a Youtube video or flash-based website perfectly.
My iMac specs can be seen below. Does anyone know what might be wrong?
(On a side note, Firefox isn't AS jerky with flash as Safari is, but it still is not as fast as it should be. I think that isolates the issue as a system processing problem or a flash problem, as opposed to a browser problem.)
iMac G5 [w/o Built-in iSight] (2GHz; 1.5 GB RAM; PowerPC), Mac OS X (10.4.11), External iSight, FCE 3.5.1, iLife '06
