Why does adobe flash player consume much less cpu than chrome in full screen mode?

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I have tried players like youtube and twitch, they all behave the same, full screen mode adobe flash consumes less CPU than full screen mode built in chrome flash, when not in full screen both consumes exaggerated cpu (and have lower fps)

C_F_McBlob · Answer

Chrome has it's own Flash Player plugin ("PepperFlash").
Here's what I discovered about Chrome that made me limit my use of it to just testing, and NOTHING MORE.

Chrome uses a "resource distribution" process, which the idiots a Google claim reduces the load on your machine (as you see, it doesn't).

What it does is open a separate process for EACH TAB and EACH PLUGIN in that tab.

3 tabs with three plugins = 9 separate processes.

Basically, unless you have a $50,000.00 "Uber-Gamer" machine with dual 8-core, hyperthreaded, processors, an 8GB dedicated GPU, and 64Gb of system RAM... Chrome will eventually grind your machine to a smoking halt. And I do mean "smoking".

When you go to full screen, Chrome will "sleep" other processes and other tabs to play the full screen video. When you leave full screen, it reactivates them, and sucks the life out of your processor and RAM again.

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