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Re:Firefox 60 released by kleiba on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @03:31PM (#17033098)
I experience regular "gray outs" on Ubuntu with FF hogging so many resources that eventually the only thing that works is killing it. This happens to me both on a 5 year old desktop as well as on old Lenovo Thinkpad (X2002s). However, I believe flashplayer to be the culprit as I often have quite a few youtube tabs open -- obviously never more than one playing though.
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Re:Firefox 60 released by StudentStuff on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:27PM (#17034270)
Why are you using Flash Player for Youtube? I've gone nearly 4 years since installing Flash on any machine, its pretty well unnecessary today. If you want to reduce performance though, using Flash is one way of going about it.
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Re:Firefox 60 released by Narishma on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:27PM (#17034787)
Depends on your hardware and drivers. On a couple of my older machines the Flash plugin is the only way I can get hardware accelerated video decoding.
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