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Macbook Pro flash lags like hell!

If you right click on something, say a Youtube video, and click settings, is hardware acceleration checked? Maybe it got unchecked somehow.

Also, I know you've said you've uninstalled/reinstalled flash, but just to make sure did you use /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager/, uninstall, and then download and reinstall the latest version of flash or something else?
 
ViciousShadow21 said:
flash suck on mac, known fact.

Jobs refuses to do anything about it cause he says flash is not the future and Adobe refuses to go out of business. so, not really much you can do about it unfortunately.
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This. I would give up mate. I have tried EVERYTHING to get flash working and gave up!! Best I have found is chrome and flash 10.45 and the extensions to install to disable flash. Mac Osx does not support flash I'm afraid.
 
apolloa said:
This. I would give up mate. I have tried EVERYTHING to get flash working and gave up!! Best I have found is chrome and flash 10.45 and the extensions to install to disable flash. Mac Osx does not support flash I'm afraid.
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Wow where did that prime nugget of information come from, the dark and shady region of your mind. Flash works fine on my machine, I am aware that some have issues but to claim that OSX doesn't support flash is nonsense.
 
I thought my macbook pro i7 was meant to be a pretty powerful machine and could handle things like this. But it cannot even handle basic flash games?

This was bought in February 2011 and was only used for the first time 10 days ago, I installed an SSD Drive to it and it seems fine with photoshop, movie editing and dreamweaver.

But when it comes to flash it just gets 120cpu usage and the fans are going like an aeroplane!

I also have a memory issue with firefox, it is always going over 1GB of usage of RAM!

I had a quad core acer 8930G before I got this but have always wanted to try macs out, other than this flash issue I love it.

Would flash work better on bootcamp via windows? Or do I need to sell this macbook pro and get the latest model? I thought an i7 and the graphics card it has would be more than enough though to be honest..

Cheers
 
youss said:
Hello.

When im using the internet, and the browser uses adobe flash it starts to lag as hell and use 100% of my CPU %.

I've tried uninstalling, i've tried using Adobe flash player "SQUARE"
I've tried installing version 9 - the latest version etc.

what can i do?

oh i've also "Repaired disk" in disk utility
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That's Flash for ya. Always lagging and power hog. It sucks, big time. On EVERY computer I tried it on, it lags really bad. I often have to crash the Flash plugin on Firefox for some websites to work without freezing every other second.

There's a reason why Apple's abandoning Flash in favor of HTML5, and a reason why Google's Doodles never lag.
 
nickc25 said:
I thought my macbook pro i7 was meant to be a pretty powerful machine and could handle things like this. But it cannot even handle basic flash games?
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There's no such thing as a basic flash game. Anything basic still eats resources due to flash.

You need to investigate to see if your GPU is supported but I don't think so. I know my Intel HD3000 isn't but the hardware acceleration is still checked. It's still not yet supported, if ever.

The situation for flash has always been worse on OSX, thanks to Adobe.
 
Jakeblu said:
Wow where did that prime nugget of information come from, the dark and shady region of your mind. Flash works fine on my machine, I am aware that some have issues but to claim that OSX doesn't support flash is nonsense.
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Where did it come from? Hmm, the months I have spent trying to get it to work, the reinstallation of OSX, the fact my Windows 7 on the same hardware works perfectly fine with Flash. The fact if I do not block flash on websites then my browsers WILL GUARANTEED crash in OSX.
Yeah, pretty much my own experience with it, which is worth a hell of a lot more then your sarcastic comment!!
 
I should add that I've been flash free for a while now. Occasionally annoying when sites refuse to serve HTML5 video but not so annoying that I want to install Flash.
 
Thank you all for your responses.
I'm well aware of flash sucking for OSX, and i totally agree.

But my problem is, i could run flash games / visit sites with flashbanners etc. 2 weeks ago.

Now i cant load flash games, go to sites with flash banners (i cant even go to gizmodo or the danish news magazine ekstrabladet www.eb.dk)

Why can that be?
And before answering my question, please be aware of what i've done so far to try and fix it

  • Uninstalling flash
  • re installing flash
  • tried previous versions as well as the newest versions
  • installed adobe flash player "square"
  • tried mac antivirus programs
  • cleared cache of firefox and also the computers cache with "CleanMyMac"
 
apolloa said:
The fact if I do not block flash on websites then my browsers WILL GUARANTEED crash in OSX.
Yeah, pretty much my own experience with it, which is worth a hell of a lot more then your sarcastic comment!!
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Perhaps I was a little heavy with the sarcasm, apologies but perhaps a better comment would be flash is not supported on your machine because it is damn well supported on mine and I also run OSX
 
i tried removing adobe flash
installed chrome (newest version)

tried it, and it was just as bad, if not worse.
I even right clicked on what ever flash i needed, and it was still "Adobe Flash" so i guess chrome has adobe flash installed into the browser?

:-(( this is starting to annoy me, especially because everything these days are adobe flash, and i cant do **** with my computer.
 
Have you tried making a new user and see how flash runs there?

Other than that, if you have repaired permissions and ran onyx, i see no other solutions than to reinstall.
 
Delete your Flash cookies.

Short answer: Delete your Flash cookies.

Flash keeps its own cookies (surprise!) in its own folder that can bog down your flash player. Delete them. Delete them every day. This is what works for me. But deleting cookies in your browser won't touch them. So, two ways to do this: use FLUSH (http://machacks.tv/2009/01/27/flushapp-flash-cookie-removal-tool-for-os-x/) or use the Flash panel in your System Preferences.

Long answer:

My MBP was also slogging it to run flash video. I had given up on full-screen altogether.

My solution(s):

  1. My kludgy workaround had been to run the video in regular size and zoom in on it using the Universal Access zoom function that you can turn on in the system preferences.
  2. THEN I installed the extension clicktoflash—which I recommend for many reasons, not the least of which is that Flash can make my Mac run up to 30 degrees hotter. It also makes lots of ads invisible! (http://clicktoflash.com/)
  3. THEN I discovered the YouTube5 Safari extension (http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/). It plays YouTube videos as HTML5, not Flash. Even seems to work on YouTube videos embedded on other websites. No more slow YouTube.
  4. THEN I discovered by accident that Flash video played perfectly well in a new user account I created for my boyfriend. (Try it!) I thought for a long time that this was my solution, especially when I hook my laptop up to my TV. This made me think that my regular user account was bogged down in some way, but I couldn't think of how, since i regularly reset Safari and had reinstalled Flash several times.
  5. THEN I stumbled on FLUSH. It ferrets out Flash cookies and gets rid of them. This seems to have fixed everything. I put it in my Login Items in the User Accounts panel in my System Preferences, so I don't forget. But I run it every so often when I think of it anyway. I don't know why cookies should have such a bad effect, but this seems to have fixed things for me. Now I run full screen Flash video with no trouble.

So that worked for me.
 
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Or if you continue to have problems you can do what others do and that's accept that Mac's don't handle flash well.

It's well known that it's a non issue on PC's.

Because I know how (and have the patience) to manage it on my MBP, mines fast, but I hate to admit it is a real pain in the ass.

It's simply the price you pay for using a Mac, a price I don't mind at all :)
 
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