Hi, Chrome and Firefox have disabled support for Flash using NPAPI.
NPAPI is the old Netscape API, the way Flash used to integrate into browsers since back in the days. The Flash Plugin on Chrome and Firefox is now using the PPAPI. However on OSx this integration eats up 100% of your CPU as soon as a Video is enabled. Which pretty much makes it unreliable. You can use Safari, which still uses NPAPI and has less CPU impact. However for OSx the video integration on Chrome and Firefox relies on a Flash update that fixes the CPU issue. In the past this happened but it took several months (reduced CPU impact over time to the current level). You may also understand the ignorance of this step as another attempt of Chrome and Firefox to push for HTML5 Video. They must have known what would happen if they out of sudden deprecate NPAPI ;) Thanks, Sebastian -- Sebastian Wagner https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock [email protected]
