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Seriously? That sounds odd I'm running the latest version of Flash in Firefox and it is using between 0-6% CPU with 8 tabs open including this Flash chart.

Flash only works well in windows, it's crap on all other operating systems.

you're already looking at HN, it's not like you're really gonna need that 25 for anything else right?

If he's using a laptop, he's now burning significantly more power. 4 hours of battery life at idle can easily become 30 minutes at a constant 25% CPU load.

you're already looking at HN, it's not like you're really gonna need that 25 for anything else right?

Actually, I did need that 25% for something else. Was waiting for code to finish compiling (well, for Clang's Static Analyzer to finish running). It takes more then a few minutes to run on a sizable project.

Plus, as jrockway pointed out, it absolutely kills battery life, and I'm on a laptop.

Not for me, or anyone at my office.