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mabaker

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I'm wondering if I'm the only one having noticed the VAST performance difference when surfing flash heavy web sites in Safari and Opera. It seems almost incredible. I must say I got a Powermac g5 1.8 GHz and Flash 10 plugin installed.

When watching this simple video in High Quality in Opera the CPU activity monitor shows about 40% average CPU use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0

Now let's watch the VERY same video in Safar the CPU usage jumping to... 112%!

I have a question here then. Does any of the fellow forum members experience such issues or any of performance issues (especially on their PPC machines)?

Or does anyone would be able to shed some light on the architectural differences how flash content is handled in Safari and how it's handles in Opera?
 
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