Chrome and Flash - massively annoying problem with CPU usage!

[Sumanji]

Hey,

I'm using the latest stabe version of Chrome (22.0.1229.79), with no other Flash players installed on the system.

Whenever I enable the inbuilt Flash plug-in the CPU usage shoots up to 50% (one core of my C2D just gets hammered) and the entire system becomes unusable. Exact same problem on my laptop (25% on an i5 - system still becomes unusable!).

WTAF is this nonsense? I read that it's caused by clashing versions of Flash - there used to be three versions showing in chrome://plugins, but I got rid of the others, and now only PepperFlash is showing, so it must be the problem!

Does anyone have any advice on how to sort this please?

Cheers,

Suman

 

[Sumanji]

Surely someone else is having this problem?!

 

[Sumanji]

I think I have broken my Chrome now...

I installed the standalone Flash plug-in and disabled PepperFlash from the chrome://plugins screen. However, PepperFlash still kept randomly reenabling itself (and then causing the entire machine to hardlock), so I just deleted the DLL from the relevant folder

Now Chrome no longer plays any YouTube videos - I just get a message saying "This video is currently unavailable".

I am being pushed slowly back towards Firefox...

*Sigh*