[Sethro]

I'm not sure if anyone else has any problems with flash under Mac OSX, whenever I got to any flash intensive site like YouTube or MetaCafe and try to play a simple video the computer fan whirres up and its almost as its about to take off, CPU usage spikes and remains high. The entire machine gets slow, does anyone have this problem? Most of the time my Macbook C2D purrs along nicely even under some graphics intensive tasks, is Flash for Mac something which is taboo?

I tried some of the sites on my old Toshiba Tecra, but it would never slow down like my Macbook which completely falls to its knees when any flash video is running.

Anyone else experiencing the same problem? And if so are there any potential fixes?

[himself]

It's just that Macromedia never really took the time to optimize Flash for the Mac. Macromedia has always done a poor job of coding for Mac OS X, and it'll probably take a while for Adobe to clean everything up.

[Cold Warrior]

What browser are you using?

[Sethro]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

What browser are you using?

Glad to hear that its not an inherent defect in Mac OSX, for the record I tried using Safari 2.0.4 and Firefox running the same YouTube video and in both cases the computer was brought to its knees by the video, even typing in the address bar was slow, by about 2-3 seconds per letter.

[Drew]

Try OmniWeb, I just downloaded it and it works great with flash.

Omniweb

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Sethro 

Glad to hear that its not an inherent defect in Mac OSX, for the record I tried using Safari 2.0.4 and Firefox running the same YouTube video and in both cases the computer was brought to its knees by the video, even typing in the address bar was slow, by about 2-3 seconds per letter.

I'm not as convinced as others that the problem isn't a defect in OS X, as Flash plays far better under Linux, and I fail to see why Macromedia would spend more time on the Linux port than on the Mac port, and for Flash to have remained this unoptimized for this long?

[Jens Peter]

Originally Posted by Drew 

Try OmniWeb, I just downloaded it and it works great with flash.

Omniweb

I have the same problem as the original poster, and OmniWeb works just as well as Safari or Camino

[Sethro]

Could it be a problem with the Flash Player not being a Universal Binary?

[Jens Peter]

I don't think so, because my machine is a 12" powerbook - not an intel machine.

[pooka]

I believe I'm now famous across the internet for bitching about flash performance on any flavor of Mac OS.

Macromedia and now Adobe are silent on this issue. Its so ****ing absurd that I'm left to believe that some sort of deal was struck between Microsoft and MM to make the flash plugin crawl on Mac systems. Apparently Adobe is honoring this agreement because their updates to the plugin have made no improvements. Aside from some BS claims that they improved the actionscript performance by 3000 percent in some cases.

Either the problem is with the plugin itself, or the method in which it is invoked by Mac browsers. I'm leaning toward the latter. This smells like an Apple problem.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Jens Peter 

I don't think so, because my machine is a 12" powerbook - not an intel machine.

And this problem persists on Intel machines too.

[Sethro]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

And this problem persists on Intel machines too.

Increadible, but thinking that Mac machines are an industry standard when it comes to any type of professional video editing you would think that things like Flash would run seamlessly with Mac OSX. I'm curious are there any Macromedia Flash "clones" that are open source and optimized for Mac's and are less buggy?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Sethro 

Increadible, but thinking that Mac machines are an industry standard when it comes to any type of professional video editing you would think that things like Flash would run seamlessly with Mac OSX. I'm curious are there any Macromedia Flash "clones" that are open source and optimized for Mac's and are less buggy?

I've seen some Javascript libraries that allows for animation on the web that can replace this aspect of Flash, but nothing that goes beyond that.

BTW, it's "Macs" and "incredible". You don't use an apostrophe to make something plural.

[Sethro]

I have noticed that playing heavy flash based videos including third party products like the imbedded DivX Player in many cases makes the computer work overtime, I'm curious I reading something about Microsoft Silverlight.

Could this be potencially be used as a Abobe Flash substitute? It looks promising and actually looks pretty cool.
Can anybody that has used this write a review or how it performs as compared to flash components.

[Satorikun]

My iMac G5 (spring 2005) spontaneously sleeps when I begin to use Flash-intensive sites - especially, Desktop Tower Defense. Anyone know why?!