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I can't open 2 or more HD videos at the same time without having a lag or FPS drop. Chrome does this perfectly, I have 8 Gb RAM and use Win 7 64 bit. Firefox 16

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m1rAcLe
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I watch youtube or different kinds of livestreams in HD a lot. And the last 2-3 month I'm having a problem watching them in Firefox because I get a terrible lag if I open 2 or more tabs with a video inside. As I am typing this message I've had about 5 terrible freezes (I've opened 2 livestreams in my tabs). Sometimes they just crash and I have to restard the page to go on watching, but most of the time they are lagging like they are lacking FPS and it's unwatchable. I tried cleaning the cash and using different versions of Firefox, I tried the new beta (17) and it's the same. My personal opinion is that Shockwave Flash fault, but I reinstalled it and tried different versions so many times, so I don't know what else to do. I like using Firefox, but I can't do it anymore. I tested the same thing in Chrome and it didn't lag a bit even if I open 10 videos at a time.

My system is: Videocard PCI-E 2.0 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti, ZT-50303-10M, 1Gb, GDDR5 HDD SEAGATE SV35 ST31000526SV 1Tb SATA III Motherboard ASUS P8H61/USB3(3.x) LGA 1155 DDR3 8 Gb CPU INTEL Core i5 2500, LGA 1155 Windows 7 64 bit Firefox 16.0.1

I watch youtube or different kinds of livestreams in HD a lot. And the last 2-3 month I'm having a problem watching them in Firefox because I get a terrible lag if I open 2 or more tabs with a video inside. As I am typing this message I've had about 5 terrible freezes (I've opened 2 livestreams in my tabs). Sometimes they just crash and I have to restard the page to go on watching, but most of the time they are lagging like they are lacking FPS and it's unwatchable. I tried cleaning the cash and using different versions of Firefox, I tried the new beta (17) and it's the same. My personal opinion is that Shockwave Flash fault, but I reinstalled it and tried different versions so many times, so I don't know what else to do. I like using Firefox, but I can't do it anymore. I tested the same thing in Chrome and it didn't lag a bit even if I open 10 videos at a time. My system is: Videocard PCI-E 2.0 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti, ZT-50303-10M, 1Gb, GDDR5 HDD SEAGATE SV35 ST31000526SV 1Tb SATA III Motherboard ASUS P8H61/USB3(3.x) LGA 1155 DDR3 8 Gb CPU INTEL Core i5 2500, LGA 1155 Windows 7 64 bit Firefox 16.0.1

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Hi m1rAcLe,

try to Turn off hardware acceleration in Firefox and "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player too :

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

also try to Disabling Protected Mode in Flash (the link is for 11.3, do the same for 11.4), see the same in "Last resort" in the next link from adobe forum http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0


thank you

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Hi m1rAcLe,

try to Turn off hardware acceleration in Firefox and "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player too :

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

also try to Disabling Protected Mode in Flash (the link is for 11.3, do the same for 11.4), see the same in "Last resort" in the next link from adobe forum http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0


thank you

m1rAcLe
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Thank you for your reply. It seems like disabling the hardware acceleration in the Flash player did the trick. I dunno if it will stay like this but I've tried opening up to 7 livestreams and it was looking better than with 2 livestreams before.