Large Memory Usage in Flash Player 11.3.300.257

I am running CyberFox (which gives 64-bit capability) over the latest version of FireFox.  FlashPlayer is bringing my whole computer to its knees on certain website. The worst is Alaska Dispatch New (ADN.com), the largest newspaper in the state -- on any news story (but I think not the frontpage). Another consistent offender is Salon.com.

My computer has 8 gb of memory (the max possible). I had the plug-in container taking 5gb today. When I kill the container with ProcessExplorer, I get instant relief. But the plug-in container comes back on and its memory usage climbs very rapidly (5-10 minutes) back to a high consumption. Also the CPU cycles zoom up and stay there. I becomes impossible to type (characters appear very slowly) and pages in other browser tabs then scroll very slowly and erratically, if at all.

This has been a problem for many months, but has gotten worse. ADN just completely redid its website, which is when the problem started occurring there.  FlashPlayer needs to incorporate defenses against poorly written websites, or ones that are "over the top" with images and memory hungry advertisements, or whatever else going on here.

I had to quit using Firefox completely. On a Win7 desktop with 4GB of memory, Flash quickly claims over 1.5 GB.  With other applications running, I would complete run out of memory and the amount of swapping would freeze my desktop from time to time. I couldn't even close Firefox, I'd have to end it from Task Manager.  Firefox recently moved Flash into a the plugin-container.exe process. That didn't help, and if anything made it worse.  This is Firefox 45.0.2.  Internet Explorer 11 is isn't quite as unfriendly with Flash, but it has problem too. So now, I'm trying Chrome. Flash is out of control with Chrome too! Again, climbing to 1.5 GB at times! Developers need to abandon Flash, soon!  MSN.com is an absolute nightmare with the Flash ad garbage on every page.

Lol!  I think I have you all beat.  So this seems to happen to me after every update (which is why I try not to update, unless I really, really have to).  So the last 3 updates (4 if you include the one I skipped before the last one), my system would run extremely sluggish.  Like molasses slow.  I'm running a Mac Pro 3,1 (8 core Xeon), with 10GB or ram, and a 512MB GeForce 8800GT GPU.  So there is no reason why my system would get so bogged down.  Then I would open up Activity Monitor, which shows ALL activities going on at the moment on my system.  And wouldn't you know, Shockwave Flash is at the top of the list, hogging 3.25GB or ram.  3.25GB!!  So naturally, I would force quit the activity within Activity Monitor, then BAM my system is running happy again.  UNTIL I update again, then I would go through the same b.s.  For frame of reference, I updated the plugin 2 days ago.

I'm not playing games online.  In fact, most things I do online on my desktop system, are very basic things.  I check email, I check Facebook, sometimes Instagram and Twitter, I do Google searches, and a handful of sites I check regularly.  I'm pretty sure it's not the sites.  Because once I do a force quit on Shockwave Flash (2.0 for this version), it doesn't happen again.  Yet, flash still works on those sites.  Only happens after every update.  A fresh install of the lastest plugin.  It's like Flash is saying "hey look! fresh powder!", so it hogs the "hill", and rips it all up so no one else can enjoy the fresh snow.  Until they are booted from the mountain. lol  Only to happen again when I update.  Pretty frustrating.

Mind you, I primarily use Firefox.  Explorer has been gone from the Mac system for over 10 years.  Chrome isn't as customizable as Firefox.  And Safari, well, I've never been a fan of Safari.  Firefox...we have a love hate relationship.  Firefox is a memory hog too. I have to restart it every couple of days, as it would start at 300MB when first launch.  By the second day, it would be using up 1GB.  The most it's used up before I restart it, is about 1.7GB.  But nowhere near the 3GB+ with Flash plugin.

So my questions are, why does it suck up so much initially?  But doesn't after it's forced quit, and the sites visited are always the same?  AND it's still working even after a force quit.

This chat might be dead since the last response was a year ago. Still, I've been watching Flash get out of control with every new revision. OK, yes I have an underpowered machine by current "standards". It's a Mid 2010 Mac Mini, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo (still not too bad) and only 4Gb of memory (yeah, on the low side). Still, it's astounding seeing that one Flash Player process - yes, one OS process - wants over ==> 1Gb ==< of memory, particularly on a machine with only 4Gb (hopefully enough emphasis here). You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me. Most heavy-duty applications don't use that much, and this is a frickin' browser plug-in. I recently had to uninstall Flash on my MBP, which has 8Gb of memory, as it kept on crashing both Safari and Firefox.

Trying to stay calm, there must be some degree of remediation for this. I read earlier in this chat that 'Flash only takes a certain percentage' of memory. Umm, OK ... 25% sounds a touch excessive.

Please advise.

I have this same issue as well and all I am doing is opening several tabs for different news sites that have flash content in the page. One thing I have noticed in my cases is it happens more on news pages that have there video set to auto play when you load the page.

I just wanted to note that this problem occurs regularly for me on a new Windows 7 machine with 16 GB of RAM with the latest Firefox and the latest FlashPlayer plugin "and" I never play games at all.  Just normal web sites with flash content.  I basically have to keep Task Manager Up all the time and kill the Flash process when things bog down.  And they bog down quite often with 2-6 tabs running.  It is obviously the advertisers and their content causing the problem.  The browser vendors and Adobe appear to be helpless to deal with modern web pages with lots of advertiser content.  As we all know, this advertiser content "is" the business model for most web sites, and will stay that way likely far into the future. 

I had the same problem with my

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Flash Player is being a memory hog.
I log into facebook and go to any app using flash player and on average it is using 650mb of ram.
that's less than 10% of my total systems available ram , which normally by no means should be an issue except for the fact that it's causing lag. There's no issues with the connection at 15,000 dl and 1.5 ul and as per usual with facebook there's a 54% of a second latency when pinged. Issue is the lag that is being caused by the total of two chrome.exe processes in task manager totaling  in at 41% memory usage causing LAG LAG  LAG  making most games unplayable because of this.

I too have seen an excessive amount of memory leaked by this version. I have 2gb of Ram, and flash uses 450mb on a single tab in firefox. The 11.2 plugin rarely exceeded 200mb. The facebook application is hidden chronicals. It is true that when I close the tab, the memory is released to the system. However, it is next to impossible to play the game when flash uses this much ram.

My system overhead uses 38% ram (778mb)

Add this to Firefofox with 1 tab on hidden chronicals uses between 8-9% ram (170mb)

Flash plugin uses 22% ram (450mb and climbing)

I downloaded a 3rd party memory cleaner, and set the program to purge the memory when it reaches 65% in use. This causes flash to purge 2/3 of its leaked memory. At this point the system becomes usable again!

Seeing as this is an ongoing, and unresolved issue with Flash, it is my recomendation to add a configurable option that limits the amount of ram the plugin uses. Add this tab to the global settings so the end users can better manage their pc's memory.

If you need to see a working example, I would be willing to do a webex with adobe's support.

I have observed that flash player indeed is using all RAM of my system and causing a lot of delays in other applications and in my use of my computer. This is happening, for example, after I access for a while an internet TV channel, like 'France 24' (http://www.france24.com/en/aef_player_popup/france24_player#) or 'All Jazeera' (http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/), both from Google Chrome and Opera. (I haven't tested other browsers.) When this happens and I go other application, or even to another webpage already opened in the same browser, the system (Win XP) makes very long searches in the HD to get the data. These searches on the HD take much more time than if I downloaded the page directly from the website, but once it begins, what I only know after trying to go to the pre-opened page, this option does not exists more. And, while the system is searching in the HD, everything turns very slow and even to open the 'Task Manager' has become a problem.

I have already tryed to configure Flash player to limit its usage of RAM, but this option is not available neither from the Flash Player entry on the 'Control Panel' nor in the 'Configurations...' line available clicking with the 2nd mouse button at a Flash Player screen on the browser.

Do I have a way to prevent this terrible problem (other than to not use Flash Player) ? Thanks.