[AgentConundrum]

I don't know if this is related, but I had an issue with flash yesterday which seems to correspond to the Chrome 22 release.

I was playing a game which had never had a serious issue before, and I noticed that the timing of things was way, way off. At first, I thought that my system was just lagging - I had a server VM running, Firefox (my main) always has a ridiculous number of tabs open, and I was playing the game in Chrome because I don't like logging into Facebook from my 'everyday' browser - but shutting down the most resource intensive applications did nothing for the game.

Eventually I checked the plugins page and noticed that Chrome's built-in Flash plugin had re-enabled itself - I disabled it a couple weeks ago due to some video streaming issues - and it was once again the default plugin for those applications, therefore overriding the (higher version) system wide install.

I'm really hoping I'm not going to have to babysit Flash every few weeks when Chrome updates, especially since there isn't always a visual cue that you're running a new version of Chrome.

[lifeformed]

Me too. Ever since 22, Chrome has felt really unstable. Flash runs slowly, and if I have a bunch of tabs open, eventually pages start becoming completely white. If I pull a tab out to make it it's own window, Chrome crashes. I also can't seem to download anything anymore (Windows can't find the downloaded file).

Maybe it's just me, but I swear I didn't do anything weird to my system...

[paulhodge]

I've also starting having some awful performance hitches involving Flash, which might be related. Sometimes if I watch a Youtube video, the whole browser window (not just the current tab) locks up for a few seconds. Just started happening a few days ago, on Chrome for Mac.

[AgentConundrum]

As I said in my last comment, Chrome has its own built-in Flash Player. Even if you have another player installed on your machine, the built-in one overrides it unless you specifically disable it.

If you have another Flash player installed, go to chrome://plugins and disable the one that was installed with Chrome. It's obvious by the 'Location' which one this is, at least on Windows. I don't have a Mac so I can't help you there.

It's possible that this is just a problem with Flash 11.3. When I was having the video issues a few weeks ago, I installed the newer 11.4 version. Chrome's built-in player still calls itself 11.3. I don't know if it's that Flash Player version that's having the issue, or Chrome's built-in version specifically. My only specific complaint was that Chrome 22 re-enabled the built-in player without my consent.

[krelian]

I too saw plugin-container.exe grinding my disk to a halt yesterday. I'm considering going back to FF...

[AgentConundrum]

Your comment is confusing to me. plugin-container.exe is a Firefox process, not chrome.