From: "Paul Ranson" 

Is 'Flash' running in Firefox's process?

(For example Acrobat Reader runs in its own process even when hosting pages
inside IE.)

FWIW Task Manager runs at 'High'. 'Realtime' would be unreasonable for a
monitoring tool. You aren't running Server are you?

Paul

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4226336f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I run a browser with a lot of pages open at once. I do this to find content
>to post on my blogs. One annoying problem I have is with Flash ads that eat
>up lots of CPU.
>
> Before trying to find and kill the Flash add-in I figured I'd try using
> priority changes for FireFox when I want to switch away from the browser
> to use other tools. Going into the WinXP Task Manager to set FireFox to
> lower priorities has produced some weird effects:
>
> 1) I've set FireFox to Below Normal and even Low and on some occasions it
> has continued to eat 98% of the CPU. Switching to a different process the
> other process was still slow. Starting up Borland C++ Builder or switching
> to regular Mozilla (which I have running at the same time) is still slow
> even for popping up a Find dialog. Well, I have a Gig of RAM and the apps
> are all well below the Gig. So I don't think disk swapping is the problem.
>
> 2) I've set FireFox back to a higher priority while trying to get it to
> shut down and it goes to being pegged at 98% CPU but still shuts down very
> slowly. Are the Flash ads eating up all the CPU? And did I mention that I
> hate Flash?
>
> 3) Bringing up the Task Manager when some process is eating all the CPU is
> a slow process. There ought to be a way to say to the OS "Hey, when I
> choose Task Manager from the Right Click Context Menu pop it up to a high
> priority so it pops up quickly and to allow me to quickly kill or slow a
> task".
>
> 4) When a task ceases to be the task that has focus it ought to be able to
> be automatically popped down to a lower priority. Then I wouldn't have to
> be going into the task manager in the first place.
>
> I'd also like it if browsers had some way to tell you which of several
> pages that are loaded are eating CPU time and how much time they are
> eating. A 2.2 Ghz P4 ought to be fast enough. An even faster one would
> just run the ads more rapidly. Two CPUs wouldn't help much since they'd
> just allow two ads full bore to run in parallel.
>
> An SMP system where the OS dedicated one CPU to the foreground task would
> be highly excellent.

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