https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/blog/sound/ Recent content in Sound on passthejoe Hugo en-US Copyright © 2025, Steven Rosenberg. Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:27:13 -0700 https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/my-current-fix-for-the-conexant-flow.exe-firefox-issue/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:27:13 -0700 https://relvokcor.xyz/~passthejoe/hugo/my-current-fix-for-the-conexant-flow.exe-firefox-issue/ <p>The problem for users of Windows laptops using the Conexant audio driver that makes Conexant&rsquo;s <code>Flow.exe</code> program eat large amounts of CPU when the Firefox web browser is running has not been solved by &ldquo;conventional&rdquo; means.</p> <p>And in order to be part of the &ldquo;solution,&rdquo; should one ever come, <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726">I filed a bug with Mozilla</a> on the issue.</p> <p><a href="https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Audio/Flow-exe-spikes-to-20-CPU-and-causes-sporadic-windows-freeze/td-p/6483020">There have been many fixes proposed</a> for this problem, which only seems to manifest itself on my HP Envy laptop while running Firefox. You hear the fan rev up almost immediately and then can see both Firefox and <code>Flow.exe</code> climb in the amount of CPU they are taking, combining for a total of about 60% on my laptop.</p>