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We have developed a website that has quite a lot of flash in it and it seems to be hanging on some machines using firefox, these machines are a lower spec than our development machines and we cannot recreate the problem locally.

Ideally we want to somehow limit the CPU usage to maybe just a single core when browsing the website in the office so we can try and replicate the situation of our users.

Is there any way of doing this?

Bex
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VMware will let you choose to run your machine in a configurable amount of cores and processors. As far as I can tell, it won't let you downclock. But going down to one core might do the trick for you.

NinjaCat
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  • I had thought of this, but currently not running vmware or virtual pc, s would take lots of time to sort out – Bex Aug 17 '10 at 09:55
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You can change the CPU affinity of the Browser and the flash plugin process. There are also some slowdown utilities that can emulate a slower CPU

http://www.classicdosgames.com/utilities.html

Midhat
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  • ah this seems like what I need. I remember now using something similar a few yrs ago when trying to play an old win 3.11 game that was going at the speed of light on my win 98 PC! Thanks! – Bex Aug 17 '10 at 09:58