Flash performance on OSX - Safari vs Firefox vs Opera
Just a quick test with a random Youtube HD movie I grabbed from their frontpage. The (quick and dirty) screenshots should say it all:
Safari:
Firefox:
Opera:
Why does Safari perform so badly? My regular browser is still Safari, but I'm thinking about switching to Opera on my MacBook Air, it will probably run cooler and use less power... (I haven't tested CPU usage under normal browsing conditions, but considering a LOT of pages have at least some Flash ads...)
I did however test this with multiple movies, all of them show this kind of difference in CPU usage.
Safari:
Firefox:
Opera:
Why does Safari perform so badly? My regular browser is still Safari, but I'm thinking about switching to Opera on my MacBook Air, it will probably run cooler and use less power... (I haven't tested CPU usage under normal browsing conditions, but considering a LOT of pages have at least some Flash ads...)
I did however test this with multiple movies, all of them show this kind of difference in CPU usage.
3 months later: