Victor wrote:
> I have the same problem. Some Flash plays fine in IE, and SysInternals Process Explorer
> shows it using 30% of CPU.
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> But same Flash in Firefox 3 uses 100% CPU to load page, and takes much, much longer.
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> OTOH, youTube uses slightly less CPU in Firefox than IE.
>
> Both IE and FF have updated flash player. FF 3 install is new install from 3 weeks ago
> with Flash from that time.
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> I have AMD 2GHz with 2G RAM.
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Because IE is intregrated with the system, some of the processes it uses
are not assigned to it, but are subsumed within the system use. Whereas
with Firefox, all the processes are shown.

Use of 100% CPU is simply being efficient. ALL the available CPU is
being used. If it was down at 30% (like it shows with IE) the process
would take three times longer!

If you use only 50% of the available CPU, then the process could be
twice as fast if the program took advantage of the remaining 50% - so
100% usage is better, not worse.

My advice? Turn off the cpu meter, it isn't doing you any real good. You
can turn it back on if you run into problems, but right now it is simply
misleading you.