Flash player memory leak?

[dredd2929]

I'm taking an online course with Flash video lectures. I noticed that every video gets progressively slower as they progress, and are basically a slide show by the end. I pulled up Task Manager during one and watched the Physical Memory Usage go from 35% to 65% in one 90 minute video. This has got to be why the videos are slowing down. The process hogging all them memory is called "plugin-container.exe *32". This process was about 900MB by the time my lecture was over, and it disappeared as soon as I closed Firefox and all the memory was freed up. It must be the Adobe Flash plugin. My question is, how do I fix this? I did some searching online, and it look like I'm not the only to have this problem. One place suggested trying the 64-bit beta (v11.0.1.98), which I did, but the problem remains. Tried disabling hardware, same. Have any of you guys had this problem?

 

[Cerb]

Assuming it isn't live, check out addons for downloading videos, such as Video Downloadhelper (yes, one word, and that does affect the search ).

If you can then watch it with a regular video player, all should be fine (if you don't have anything but standard WMP, and can't play it, get Sharky's codecs and MPC-HC).

 

[dredd2929]

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not really an option for me. It's a review course for a medical licensing exam. It also wasn't cheap, and they are very adamant about going after people who copyright infringe, so I don't want to risk it. Plus I don't really feel comfortable doing that anyway.

 

[mosco]

Does it save the downloaded video as you watch? I am wondering if its just saving the video in memory.

 

[dredd2929]

It would seem that way, but I set the local storage settings to 10KB max, so it shouldn't be.

 

[mosco]

It would seem that way, but I set the local storage settings to 10KB max, so it shouldn't be.

I don't think that setting has anything to do with that. That setting usually implies how much data the app can store across sessions.

 

[Steltek]

Have you tried another browser? Firefox has long had documented issues with memory leaks (in fact, one of the stated objectives of the upcoming version 7 is to begin fixing this problem), and Flash itself doesn't have the best reputation in that area itself.

Putting FF and extended run Flash files together is probably just asking for trouble.

 

[dredd2929]

Yes, I have tried both IE9 and Chrome. The problem exists with equal severity for all of them.

Ironically, Firefox seems to have the least amount of slowdown of the three browsers.