Fwd: Flash based games not working

Fwd: Flash based games not working

Amos Shapira amos.shapira at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 14:32:27 IDT 2009


2009/9/17 Danny Lieberman <dannyl at software.co.il>:
> Amos
>
> Flash on Ubuntu 9 in general consumes much more CPU than previous versions,
> full screen youtube on my dual core machine takes 70% of each of the two
> cpus- which may be why FF locks. I've confirmed this for 32 and 64 bit -
> it's well documented on the Ubuntu forums.....fwiw....people are waiting for
> Adobe....
>
> Try upgrading to FF3,5,2 (Shiretoko) - it seems to be much faster for
> certain operations and better behaved with gmail java scripts/Ajax

Thanks. I'm already using Firefox 3.5 (can't remember how I installed
it but it's not the Ubuntu package - 9.04 comes with 3.0).

--Amos



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