Full Screen Flash using 7 times the CPU in Lion as in Windows 7

[asdf12125]

Hello,

I have a 2011 Base 13" Air with up to date Lion. I noticed when I ran a full screen (external monitor) flash player in Google Chrome, my CPU usage would fluctuate between ~80-110% and run pretty hot above the chip after a minute or two. I figured it was just because Flash sucks, but I was very surprised when installing Boot Camp Windows 7 the other day that full screen Flash was only taking up ~16% usage, and running much cooler.

I checked a little bit on the forums and all I was able to find were posts advising to keep the flash player up to date. Google Chrome does this automatically, so I was wondering if anyone else is seeing the same problem or has ideas on how to fix this? I figure it's just another Lion issue and I may need to run Windows 7 for flash but if anyone knows of third party software solutions that address this issue, that would be great as well.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[superstrikertwo]

Flash is terrible on OS X.

Flash is a lot better on Windows.

Flash sucks in general.

In other words this is normal I get high CPU spikes when using flash as well.

 

[baryon]

You mean Flash sucks in general on OS X It has absolutely no issues on Windows.

Before I got a Mac I had absolutely no issues with Flash. I don't have issues with it now either, but the frame rate of Flash does seem to be a tiny bit less on OS X than Windows, which is annoying as I'm a Flash designer...

 

[Hugh]

You could try using Flash 11 Beta for the Mac to see if it makes a difference. I know Flash 11 lets me view most stuff that uses Flash for me, which Flash 10 didn't. But like everyone says, Flash sucks for Mac OS X.

Hugh

 

[Justinf79]

Flash ATM runs a lot better under Snow Leopard the Lion. It only uses about 30% of the CPU. Still worse compared to it running under Windows though.