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Re:Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 - Super fluid, beats everyone on sunsp... by SkyMarshal on Thursday November 11, 2010 @01:39AM (#1893109)
>It's currently idling at around 25% CPU for me, and no, unfortunately I can't blame it on Flash. :-\

I sometimes notice this too, but always after running a bunch of Flash vids. Haven't methodically tested it, since it's not a priority and a quick restart fixes it. But how do you know it's not Flash?

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Re:Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 - Super fluid, beats everyone on sunsp... by sp332 on Thursday November 11, 2010 @09:10AM (#1893834)
Flash runs in its own process named "plugin-container", so if Flash crashes it won't take down the rest of the browser. I'm pretty sure that if flash were eating CPU, it would be attributed to the "plugin-container" process and not the "firefox" process.
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