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Flash Player Eating Up CPU, Bogging Down System

Hello,

After upgrading to Snow Leopard I've noticed that Flash Player takes up a lot more CPU power than it did with Leopard. Is this a common problem? If so, how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Black MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6), 2 GB RAM, SuperDrive, 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 320 GB HDD

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 10:29 PM

33 replies

Dick M

Level 3

675 points

Oct 31, 2009 6:33 PM in response to Bagpipe Player

Just an observation: While running Safari in 64 bit mode, the Flash Player plugin begins at about 75% and drops down to around 45% as the video continues on. Of note, is that Safari runs from about 10% to 13%.

When I switch Safari to 32 bit mode, the Flash Player plugin doesn't show up in Activity Monitor at all. Safari is now running about 40% to 45% cpu which seems to me was about the norm back in my Leopard days.

Understand, I am having no issues with this Imac as others obviously are. Perhaps this little bit of info could cause some other poster to offer more knowledgeable insight than I.

RM

Jan 21, 2010 1:08 AM in response to Aristotel Digenis

I was having the same problem with Safari. Downloaded and installed FlashPlayer version 10,0,42,34 this morning and problem seems to have gone away. To check your version of FlashPlayer goto http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and it will show your current version in the "Version Information" box.

Jan 21, 2010 1:32 AM in response to mikematthias

Just checked it again and it's gone back to CPU hogging! 25-30% for Safari and 15-17% for FlashPlayer plug-in. Arrrg!

Flash Player Eating Up CPU, Bogging Down System