Monday, August 8, 2011

Flash running slow in Google Chrome

NOTE: This does not completely fix Chrome's slow flash performance issue.  I have however noticed an performance improvement and have not noticed any flash slowdowns in Firefox when flash in running in both browsers side by side.  I think the main issue is just that Firefox runs flash better and Chrome doesn't and Google needs to fix that.  If anyone else knows how to make flash perform better on Chrome please leave a comment.


So I have noticed that flash games have been running slow in Chrome.  So I did some research and found that a lot of other people have been having this problem too.  I noticed that it usually happened worse when I had flash games running in Chrome and Firefox at the same time.  Flash would go slow in Firefox too but not as bad.  By slow I mean it would be fast for awhile and then start getting slower and slower until I finally had to restart the game to get it to run smooth again.  Slow, as in sluggish not as in it takes the game a long time to load.  That is just slow internet speeds.

So I think the problem is that Firefox and Chrome are both using the same flash plugin.  The one you downloaded for Firefox to use.  And I think the problem when Chrome is just running by it's self is that it is not using its integrated flash plugin.  To get Chrome to use its own flash plugin (the one Google integrated with it) do this:

  1. In Chrome go to about:plugins (type it in the address bar and hit enter)
  2. Look in the plugin list for Flash.  It should say "(2 files)" next to it.
  3. Once you find it (it's at the very top for me) go to the top-right corner of the page and click "Details"
  4. Now it should show two shockwave flash plugins.  Disable the one with the location: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll"
Now this if for Windows 7.  On different versions of Windows, Mac and Linux (I have not had this problem on Linux) the location will be different.  So just disable the one that does not have the word "chrome" somewhere in its location.
Here is an example:
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\13.0.782.107\gcswf32.dll
Disable the other one ;).

Note: I am running Google Chrome 13 and the latest version of Flash.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Fedora Gnome!

Well its been a long time since I have posted something.  In that time a lot of stuff has been going on (basically just life) ;).  Well one of the things I did was make a YouTube channel called The Fedora Gnome.  So I have decided that that is the new howto name I will go by.  I am no longer the Howto Fedora Guy, I am now
The Fedora Gnome!

So since I changed my howto guy name I have also changed this blogs name from Howto Fedora to The Fedora Gnome and the url from howtofedoraguy.blogspot.com to fedoragnome.blogspot.com.

I have also changed the fact that I used to only do howtos for Linux.  Now I will do howtos for most tech stuff and maybe every once in awhile I will do non-tech howtos too.

So now that I have a YouTube channel I will now be doing howto videos and blog posts.  I can't tell you how often I will be posting howtos (videos or blog posts) because I have life to deal with ;) but I can tell you that I will work on not trying to sound weird in my YouTube videos.  You know I just have to get a little more comfortable talking to Mr. Microphone,  I am a little shy when I am around him ;).  (Ya you can tell I am paranoid.  I think I sound weird even when everyone else says I don't.  And I am afraid of germs.  I am like a mild version of Monk except not as rude.)

Oh ya, I almost forgot.  Here is my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/TheFedoraGnome.