Adobe Flash eating processor on Win 7

Adobe Flash eating processor on Win 7

If I have any flash object in a browser for more than about 30-45 minutes my processor use jumps from about 30% on both cores to 100%. Even I close Firefox, Chrome, IE, or the Hulu desktop app when they start getting choppy or laggy the processor still maxes out. It is consistent across all sources of flash media, www.hulu***, www.armorgames***, www.youtube***, as well as flash based ad banners. Even if I am viewing short clips after about an hour of total playing this issue occurs. As a stop gap, I installed Flashblock in Firefox (my primary browser) to avoid flash ad banners from crashing may machine.

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Guest [Entry]

"This is known issue with the E6400, check this out:
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I got the same problem of GPU overheating

regards,

David"

Guest [Entry]

"This is normal and a bug in Flash that most people know about but they do not seem to acknowledge or fix.

Pretty much everywhere I have seen it is on x64 systems, but I am sure it is not limited to it.

I have, and I guess no one as I have said it numerous times here and on other sites, has any idea on what the cause is - I have got some complete flash websites where the CPU does not break a sweat where as a tiny square advert on Hotmail (and I mean tiny) without any special looking features makes the CPU max out.

I installed Ad Block Plus on Firefox (some people report success with FlashBlock). I have only had a couple of times where it blocks something wrong by accident and it is easy to unblock. I would highly recommend it for getting over this problem.

That being said, I have never seen this outside of the browser. You may want to use something like Process Explorer From Microsoft / Sysinternals to see in more detail what is eating your CPU. However, in my experience, anything that uses Flash can be to blame - I have seen it with MSN Messenger (The advert space at the bottom)."