10.5: Fix slow full-screen Flash movies in 10.5.7

May 26, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: ivogrondman

After updating to 10.5.7, I found that Flash movie players in web pages perform poorly in full-screen mode. On my MacBook 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, the only way to get the old performance back was to disable hardware acceleration in the Adobe Flash Player.

To disable hardware acceleration, Control-click on the playing movie and choose Settings from the pop-up menu. On the first tab (Display), uncheck 'Enable hardware acceleration.'

[robg adds: On my Mac Pro running 10.5.7, I don't see any difference in playback speed with hardware acceleration enabled or disabled. If you have a MacBook and can test this hint, please post your results in the comments.]

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