Hardware: 2011 iMac / Intel i5 / 8GB RAM
Software: OSX 10.9 (Mavericks), Flash Player 11.9.900.117
I'm having serious problems attending meetings that use the Adobe Connect platform on a Mac. I thought this might be because of the Adobe Connect plugin, so I uninstalled it and just logged into Adobe Connect meetings within the browser (which just uses the flash plugin), but the problem persists. Basically, the performance is really laggy, e.g. clicking on buttons or entering things in the chat box meets with a 30-90 second delay. Also, connection drops about every 5 minutes and I have to start my webcam again.
I talked to the school's tech support (this is being used for an online class), and they related that they've been getting a lot of calls from Mac users lately on this issue.
I've tried this in Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox with the same result. Also tried clearing cache first, that didn't work. Also tried completely uninstalling flash and re-installing, as well as disabling hardware acceleration. There's nothing really indicative of a .plist corruption in the console log either (I still tried clearing all the preferences and cache files for Flash anyway). I'm fresh out of ideas.
Although I recently upgraded (last week) to OSX 10.9, the same behavior was present in 10.8.
Question is: Is there a fix or work-around here, or am I just going to have to give up and use a windows machine?
As a side note, I have a work laptop that runs windows and both Flash and Adobe Connect plugin works great on it, which rules out the possiblity of a bad router, ISP problems, etc. etc. Basically I'm pretty confident the Flash plugin is just not playing nice with Apple (which has historically been the case, but c'mon).
Thanks,
-Aaron