I've read over the past years of how many of us are experiencing major problems with flashplayer and/or flashplayer plug-ins, and over those years I have never seen any real solutions, why's that?
I'm using Firefox 19.0 with FlashPlayerPlugin_11_7_700_169 and I've been testing out various "fixes" that I have read over the years and NONE works, and none of the feedback given to users ever really goes beyond the bog standrad drone responses of "Disable any plugins you don't need blah blah blah" "make sure you're using up-to-date browser and flashplayer etc etc etc blah blah and more blah", rather than saying "There has to be something we've screwed up since so many users are complaining now, lets try to find out what's wrong and if we can fix it",
NOT MAKE IT WORSE WITH EVERY DAMN UPDATE!!!!! (Yes I'm using THAT many exclamation marks!!!!)
My System:
Acer/Aspire 5551 (Laptop/board)
Athlon II P320 Dual Core @2.10Ghz
3GB ddr3 @1066Mhz
HD4250 @256MB
Windows 7 HP 64bit
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Firefox 19.0 with Ghostery, NoScript and FlashBlock installed, and before you give me the drone script response, I HAVE tested EVERYTHING browser wise, I have uninstalled and even removed the regkeys of EVERYTHING to do with firefox, started fresh and tested, SAME RESULTS HIGH CPU USUAGE, I then added ONE thing at a time, SAME RESULT EACH TIME, HIGH CPU USUAGE, so it REALLY doesn't matter/make any difference, Flashplayer and its damn plug-iins cause the same PROBLEM each time.
I even tried MemoryFox... I know, but i had to try SOMETHING new, and even so, it didn't do a damn thing for the HIGH CPU USAGE!!
I know my laptop is not the latest and greatest with the best chip and gfx card, BUT, it is telling that even those with the best of the best chips and gfx cards are saying the same thing I'm saying here now, FLASHPLAYER IS BUSTED AND CAUSING OUR CPU'S TO GO APE SH*T!!!!!!
I have stripped my Win7 OS down to near bare-bones getting rid of ALL the excess junk that Microsoft couldn't be bothered to get rid of and more, I tweaked my services so that I'm not running 100+ processes and services, I'm now only running ~32 on start-up and using only ~650mb of ram, so I think I've done ok so far getting rid of the crap and filth floating around in my OS. I also got rid of all the bloatware that comes as standrard with all store bought craptops, all the junk they think you need and should have "cuz it's trendy n junk". So really when I'm using Firefox to watch a video in HD and flashplayer is required, it really shouldn't require near maximum of my CPU,
NOT EVEN CIVILIZATION 5 ON GOOD SETTINGS USES THAT F*KING MY CPU
I have stripped my laptop cleaned out the fan, put new thermal paste on (Arctic Silver) and got my temps down quite a bit for a laptop, previous temps ~56c average on idle not long after after boot-up, down to ~47-50c on load playing a game listening to radio in backround,, but as soon as I play ONE video in Youtube with no other applications running, the damn flashplayer goes nuts again and risies back up to the 50's and 60's Celcuis, it just HAS to have all that CPU to it self doesn't it.
If there were ANY alternatives even if they didn't provide as good results when watching videos on Youtube but managed to use a reasonable amount of resources, I'd ditch flashplayer right now, but it appears I like the rest of us are stuck,,, for now.
PLEASE FIX THIS CRAP NOW, MILLIONS OF USERS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS, WE CANNOT ALL BE WRONG, THERE IS A PROBLEM NOT SIMPLY JUST AN ISSUE< ITS GETTING WORSE WITH EACH UPDATE BY THE LOOKS OF IT, SORT YOUR SH*T OUT GUYS, NO MORE FU**ING AROUND, FIX YOUR SH*T.
PS, sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, I just have to rant about this and I'm not that edumacatedness anyway.