I use Windows on my iMac using Parallels and Firefox runs very well. There’s not really anything I cannot do, since it is actually the fasted experience of Windows I’ve ever had. This is mainly due to using Macs and having not needed Windows for a long time, whilst the speed to computers and virtualization progressed.
Youtube is fine on Firefox in Parallels. I have not noticed any problems with running Flash in general. When Google Chrome came out this week I was desperate to test it out. Since it is currently only available on Windows, I fired up Parallels and installed it. I really wanted to see how much faster JavaScript was and how the experience compared in general.
One of the first places I went was YouTube. I was astonished by the fact that video just would not play. There is soooo much lag that it’s the equivalent of watching a slide with really bad choppy sound. What is going on here? I started up Firefox in Parallels to check, and everything was fine.
Is anyone else seeing these major performance problems with Flash in Google Chrome?
i have issues with my facebook profile, which has alot of flash based apps. i can’t activate or really do much of anything with alot of them…it’s really irritating. and i’m running on a native Windows computer with Vista SP1.
Hi Ramirek,
I’ve been steering clear of Vista myself as it’s been a headache helping friends out who have it.
Are you running Parallels?
My advice who be making sure you have the latest and greatest version of Flash installed. If in doubt install the one for Vista from Adobe’s website.
Cheers,
Phil
Hi
yeah the flash portion on the chrome aint workin at all..although it asks for plugin even after installin it am unable to view flash enabled websites like cnn.com videos……..somethin is screwed up with chrome…hope they get it up and runnin asap cos google is know for good stuff and this seems to b the name spoiler!!!!!!!
The buggy flash is a known problem. Google just released an update. Probably fixed it. I read something about flash video bug fixes in the changelog.