“Some users of the new 27-inch iMac have expressed issues with the hardware, specifically stuttering when playing back Flash content on Apple’s new desktop system,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“Two threads on the Apple Discussions support forums are filled with users who claim that Flash-based content on the Web makes processor use on the new 27-inch iMac spike, and the video becomes choppy,” Lane reports.
“Theories on why the issue exists are wide, with posters suggesting it could be the Flash player software, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, or the computer’s hardware,” Lane reports. “A number of users noted that running Flash videos in Windows 7 via Boot Camp allowed playback with no slowdowns, suggesting the problem could be Snow Leopard related.”
Full article, with a video of the issue occurring on an iMac, here.
I watched the video, and I think it’s clearly the drummer’s fault. The guy can’t stay in tempo.
I prevent Flash in Safari with Click to Flash.
What? Adobe can’t get Flash to work properly on Macs? There’s a shocker…
I use Click2Flash to watch YouTube videos. My laptop runs a lot cooler as a result.
Oops, to clarify – I use Click2Flash to watch the H.264 versions of YouTube videos via QuickTime, thus bypassing Flash entirely. That’s what keeps the CPU from doing its usual spike whenever Flash runs.
Just select Safari in Applications folder, then select get info, select Open in 32 bit and you are good to go with flash.
I think the last update to Flash introduced some sort of bug. I have 10.4.11 on an early 2007 iMac and I frequently get an error message saying I “need to adjust my global storage” on the Adobe Flash site.
Get a PC. The problems are fixed and it works better this time. Trust me…
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I had to downgrade to flash 9 on my 2003 powermac g5, flash 10 was locking my browsers.
Interesting how Windows 7 works perfectly!!
Could Snow Leopard have a problem not the perfect Snow Leopard that deletes users accounts and data!!
Ditch your Mac’s go back to Windows!!!!
Ken,
You must have a hard on for Macs the way you hang around Mac forums.
Ken, I suggest you go back to Ghetto Barbie…
Adobe support indicates that both Shockwave and Adobe PDF plugins are 32-bit, whereas Safari is running 64-bit. I’ve been wrestling with bad memory leaks since upgrading to Snow Leopard. Earlier this week I found that the Shockwave plug-in had consumed over 1 GB each of real and virtual memory and was pegging CPU utilization at some 170% (yes, that’s what Activity Monitor was telling me). Even killing Safari and logging out didn’t give me the expected free memory (per iStat). Had to reboot.
Right now I’m running Safari in 32-bit. I’ll see if it helps.
I’m with John and Gabriel, I installed Click2Flash on my Mac last week. It’s the only third party plug-in I have installed on Safari. I could not be happier with it (Disclaimer: I don’t work with them, I’m just a user).
I implore all Mac users who don’t like flash to support Click2Flash and install it.
Clean web pages with the ability to play Flash when you want on Safari, just like the Camino browser, but also the ability to substitute Flash with H264 on Youtube when available.
Now my processor doesn’t heat up like a hot plate when I use Safari.
Rid the Mac platform of the resource hogging Flash.
Is there any platform on which Flash isn’t a burden? That’s a rhetorical question, obviously.
Because FLASH = CRAP! Use Click2Flash and enjoy browsing again.
Another Click2Flash fan here. I’ve only installed it on the old iMac in my kitchen nook (e.g. breakfast and occasional dinner table that I use to catch up on the morning’s news) and I love it. I’ll be installing it on the new iMac in my office very soon.
No wonder Apple won’t let Adobe’s beleaguered Flash on the iPhone. It’s not snappy.
Maybe adobe will finally fix the flash plugin for mac, after all these years.
Who cares. Flash is a pile of crap.
i think this is an invented issue. it started on engadget yesterday, and they posed the question that this was happening, but didn’t happen to them. I’m sure there are a small number of users that are having this issue, but nothing that can’t be solved by installing click2flash or the newest version of flash from adobe.
i have four new 27″ iMacs at work and have not experienced this at all. they are all 3.33 dual core with 4850 graphics, we don’t have anything with 4670 so i don’t know if that is the configuration experiencing the issue. it’s probably adobe/driver/codec problem with that card, as we haven’t seen anything on the 4850. but then again, totally blown out of proportion and i wouldn’t be surprised if engadget was put up to it from one of their sponsors.
Oh, c’mon Ken! If you can’t do better than that, don’t even waste our time.
Study under ZuneTang® for a little bit.
Flash is only one of the suggested possibilities… No proof yet.
It can also be a matter to be fixed in a next Apple fix.
Flash has gotten alot more flakey over time (like Adobe in general). For having made their first billions on the mac platform Adobe sure treats it like a unwanted stepchild these days. At one time their software couldn’t be beat. Not anymore.
Another satisfied Click2Flash user. And for the Firefox fans there’s Flashblock.
Here’s to Click2Flash for Safari! You realize how many sites use Flash, and often badly at that. The h264 option on many youtube videos is very nice.
Adobe is getting smug and maybe had their feelings hurt. Dear Adobe, it’s not so much that Flash is coded badly, it’s how your customers use it. They design bloated websites, and awful “rich media” advertising. Even Apple is to blame, on occasion. Once, just to show a 300×250 ad, Apple (and their digitial agency) pushed a 1MB file to the consumer to show an advert.