I'm curious to know, of those of you who have gotten Adobe Flash to work with Linux Chromium, what kind of performance and system load are you seeing? And what is your CPU and GPU?
I have not tried to use Chromium yet on my laptop (2GHz Turion64x2, nVidia GeForce Go 6150, Ubuntu Intrepid), but it seems that whenever I go to a website using Flash -- regardless of the browser -- the Adobe Flash plugin sucks up processor cycles and memory.... it quite literally sucks. Even after I leave the Flash-using website, the npviewer.bin process remains resident, consuming memory and %CPU. Sometimes I see multiple copies of npviewer.bin adversely affecting my system performance. If Adobe Flash imposes a noticeable drag on my system, I hate to imagine what it might do to a single-core Atom netbook! I hope the Chrome OS team is aware of this potential problem and investigating possible solutions. My dream scenario would be for them to code a Flash alternative for Chrome, one that could be compiled on other distributions. That hope might be too ambitious... they might come up with something more clever. As a start, a flash-blocking capability would help. Using VLC to play Flash videos might be a possibility. An extreme solution might be for YouTube to change formats, but it may be impossible to move the web away from Flash, so it's a partial solution at best. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
