What is Gala and how is it different from the ordinary flash player?

[Brandon263]

Have you installed the newest version of Flash for Mac? The one that supports hardware acceleration? It's called Gala, download here. Supposedly it helps reduce strain on the CPU and GPU when playing flash videos. I've tested it a bit, and some videos it helps a lot, and some not so much, so it really depends on how the video was encoded.

Hope that helps.

Wondering what it is...

 

[pdjudd]

Wondering what it is...

Probably the latest flash beta from Adobe - 10.1.

 

[Brandon263]

Probably the latest flash beta from Adobe - 10.1.

Oh cool, I just downloaded it, and it seems to reduce Firefox's hogging up resources. Firefox used to take up to 60% of resources when watching YouTube videos, but now it was just 20% or below.