I use xubuntu 14.04 64 bit, I installed flash player from software center and xubuntu-restricted-extras too
Are there any benchmarks on Linux flash player and google chrome built in flash player? I just want to see their performance because in theory google's flash player should be more updated and have better performance than the one we use in Firefox. (that's what I read everywhere)
I have chrome latest version installed and Firefox next, and I found that flash videos in Chrome are laggy and they take long time to load. While the same flash videos load much faster in Firefox and I tend to prefer watching flash videos in firefox, especially the long ones because it loads them so much faster.
I can't believe these results on my PC, so is there any way to benchmark flash players performance on both browsers? I want to know if it's because of the flash player or the browsers or something else
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This was the first thing I found - I scored the following on Fedora 19 on my laptop:
Firefox 29 - Flash Player 11.2.202.359
Chrome 35 - Flash Player 13.0.0.214
So it looks pretty bad for Firefox with the system Linux plugin - however, just as I was writing this, this happened in Chrome where I had left the test open (annoying music muted):
And since I have has this quite often before (occasionally on Ubuntu as well), I think Flash in Firefox generally works MUCH better (and more reliably, loads quicker, etc...)
A test in Flash Player is likely to be the best way to benchmark it, as I suppose the Acid3 test is a good way to benchmark browsers. There are likely to be better tests than this though.