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How to debug a issue with flash player on Linux (ubuntu)?

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Mar 15, 20261027 views
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I play a few games and watch movies online that use flash (Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183) with Firefox (3.6.22). From time to time, flash gets horribly slow and I have to restart the browser (some time it seems that I actually need to wait a few minutes, for things to go back to normal) This happens on…

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I experience precisely the same problems with Flash as you describe here. The reason why your CPU is scaling down (despite the governor being set to "performance") is that the Flash player uses software rendering. This requires a lot of CPU. Load a …

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