FPS annoyancies

[papillon68]

Hi, one things that always bugged me with Flash, is about FPS.
I have a very simple movie (just two plain MC's moving around through an AS3 routine) that plays at 30fps with the standard standalone flash player.
In Firefox and Internet Explorer, it plays at 20fps, and also in the Flash CS3 suite, when I test movie, the speed drop at 20fps.

So my point is: is the standalone player such well optimized ? How come that browsers pluging can affect performances so much ?

Since I'm very new to AS3 and Flash, seeing around web site with heavy flash animations running extremely smooth, I suppose there are or there could be some optimizations to be done, perhaps.

[lordofduct]

Do you have the latest plug-in for Firefox? I had to install the latest flash plug-in for my browser seperately from Flash CS3 and Flex builder. Before I did I also noticed much slower frame rates.

[dr_zeus]

It's the browsers' fault. They limit the amount of CPU time the Flash Player plugin receives.

[papillon68]

I do have latest plugin version. Dr_Zeus, is that an official statement ? I mean, is just a rumour that browsers deliberately cut off flash plugin performances or is a matter of fact ?