I have just today decided to switch over from firefox to opera.. the world is a lot faster all of a sudden hopefully with less of the prying eyes that chrome offers.

However there is one issue, whenever i play a video on the web, be it via facebook, vimeo or youtube the cpu on my machine ramps up to 20-25%.

Although firefox runs JS sites with massive lag.. streaming videos was great and the fans on my laptop would not kick in. CPU would be way down.. under 10%.

Is there a setting i can apply to reduce the cpu usage when streaming?

Cheers
John