adobe flash player safari processor +100%?

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adobe flash player safari processor +100%?

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the use of adobe flash player with safari: how is it that the processor runs at more than one hundred percent when using flash player? I do not understand why the problem is still not solved after all this time. I naively thought that moving from snow leopard mountain lion was going to change something, but no. My macbook pro i7 heaters lot when I watch a streaming video using adobe. Does someone can explain to me why this situation exists?

Thank you very much

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 4, 2012 11:13 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 4, 2012 12:44 PM in response to upinthesky

See if this makes a difference...

Quit Safari.

Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Advanced tab.

Click Delete All ..

Now from the Safari menu bar click Safari > Reset Safari

Select: Clear History

Deselect the other boxes then click Reset.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

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upinthesky Author

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Aug 6, 2012 2:00 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

it does not change, and it does not surprise me. I'm not the only one to complain about this problem. I think this problem is not my particular computer, it's probably a bigger problem, and for the use of adobe flash player on mac OSX. But I thought Apple would have solved this problem by now. Even a PC works best with adobe flash player, and this is not normal.

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Alancito

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Aug 6, 2012 2:24 AM in response to upinthesky

Welcome to the Support Communities. Check you have the latest version of Flash:

http://flashbuilder.eu/flash-player-version.html

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

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upinthesky Author

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Aug 6, 2012 3:10 AM in response to Alancito

you can imagine that I checked this setting (Adobe flash player 11.3.300.268) I can perhaps turn off my computer, unplug the power, cut off my electricity meter, and everything back on and try again. No seriously, I'm not the only one to complain about this problem. Unfortunately I still have not managed to find a good technical explanation for this problem. I think there is a real problem between mac and adobe. Adobe flash player works on mac but with CPU utilization very poor and inadequate

Regards

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Alancito

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Aug 14, 2012 10:01 AM in response to upinthesky

This article was posted in CNET today:

Optimize and address Flash performance in OS X

...If nothing else, this thread will get bumped to the top of the Community for a short time.

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mikey_k

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Feb 17, 2013 12:52 PM in response to upinthesky

This just started happening to me a couple of weeks ago. Flash Player maxes out my CPU and I can't watch videos. I did switch to HTML5 for Youtube and that helped, but I can't watch any videos on Hulu or anywhere else. My version of Flash Player is up-to-date.

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