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David_b57
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September 28, 2011
Question

Adobe flashplayer causing firefox plugin container to burn CPU

  • September 28, 2011
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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit with 8GB RAM and Firefox 6.02 on a quad CPU 2.5 GHz Alienware M17x notebook. I am having a problem with Adobe flashplayer (v 10.3.183.10) which causes the plugin container to use a sustained circa 30% of CPU even when Firefox is not doing much.  This causes excessive fan speeds, noise, heating etc.  Disabling the plugin reduces the CPU use from the container to less than 1%. Ay idea how I can run flash and avoid the excessive CPU load?

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pwillener
pwillener
Legend
September 29, 2011

Does the same thing happen if you (temporarily) disable the Firefox plugin container?

chris.campbell
chris.campbell
Legend
September 28, 2011

Is there a particular URL this is occurring with?  Do you notice a difference if you try this URL with IE and Firefox?

Thanks,

Chris

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David_b57Author
Participant
September 29, 2011

Thanks guys for looking at this.  I have been waiting all day to test as you suggest but I can't get my system to produce the problem again and I have not changed any hardware, software, settings or anything!  The plugin container has been behaving correctly with Flash no matter what sites I have visited. V silly as I was stuck with this for several days before posting.

May have been a random machine error.  I will repost if it comes back but feeling sheepish now.

D.

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