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    Flash and Google Chrome

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jayayess1190, Jan 3, 2010.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Look at what Flash 10.1 Beta 2 did to Chrome:
     

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    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    Flash beta for a reason I suppose. Though I use the latest Flash beta and dev build of Chrome and have never received such a spike like that...or ever noticed.
     
    McGrady, Jan 3, 2010
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    I was half that a few times but I am not sure if that was really do to flash beta, or dev build of chrome.
     
    coldmack, Jan 3, 2010
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    could it be that you just streamed an hd video while browsing and that 1 gig represents that?
     
    trvelbug, Jan 4, 2010
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    Well I had been watching a lot of youtube videos earlier, non in HD though, and streamed some Pandora.
     
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    it could be caheing that in memory hence the 1gig
     
    trvelbug, Jan 4, 2010
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    i just watched a couple of vids myself and saw the active google process go from 40meg to 162meg so im guessing it is that.
     
    trvelbug, Jan 4, 2010
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    162MB != 1015 MB
     
    surfasb, Jan 4, 2010
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    This happened to me with the regular version of flash on google chrome. Completely fubar'd my netbook until I ended the process.

    Have yet to see it again on my new machine though.
     
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    i watched for less than 5min and it got me to 162mb
    so if youve been watching stuff for an hour i can see it goin up to 1gig
     
    trvelbug, Jan 6, 2010
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    probably just the cache ... try delete all the cache cookies and see if the process still that high
     
    devilcm3, Jan 6, 2010
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