cypress.com site makes PC almost freeze

[John Cottier]

Binary package hint: firefox

Looks ok on windows firefox. I suspect its a flash or Java page of some kind but this is the only site that upsets firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 13 09:37:49 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux john-ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:57:11AM -0000, John Cottier wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> Looks ok on windows firefox. I suspect its a flash or Java page of some
> kind but this is the only site that upsets firefox.

opening that site consumes cycles because flash is started. Though
firefox could do better to stay more reponsive while this happens, its
a flash bug in the end

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree
 status confirmed
 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[John Cottier (j-cottier)]

ok thanks.
I presume you mean its a Linux flash bug since its ok in windows.
However, seems to work ok in Konqueror.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:12:59AM -0000, John Cottier wrote:
> ok thanks.
> I presume you mean its a Linux flash bug since its ok in windows.
> However, seems to work ok in Konqueror.
>

are you running hardy?

 - Alexander

[John Cottier (j-cottier)]

No, standard Gutsy on a Dell E521, 4GB ram. Its a little better now for some reason, I think they have changed their homepage content. Firefox is still unusably slow on that site, but it least it does not make the whole OS nearly grind to a halt.

[John Cottier (j-cottier)]

This seems to have regressed again to the same behaviour. It may be partially due to the running of the non-restricted graphic driver. Acrobat is very slow and CPU hungry on standard PDF's too. But I cannot try the restricted driver due to Bug 145112, which (hopefully) needs Hardy to fix it :-(

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Is this bug still present for you?

[John Cottier (j-cottier)]

Hi Alberto,

No I have not seen this bug since upgrading. Now on 10.04, but 8.04 was fine too..

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Okay, thank you. So I'm closing it.