[hardy] Firefox 3 still has problem with javascript (100 % CPU usage when visiting a website with a news ticker)

[Pjotr12345]

In Ubuntu 8.04 alfa 6, with Firefox 3, the current problem in Firefox with Javascript isn't solved. Up to 100 % CPU usage when visiting a website with a news ticker based on javascript. Such as newspaper portal www.kranten.com

Nasty problem, I hope it will be fixed before the final release of Hardy.

Greetz, Pjotr.

[Pjotr12345 (computertip)]

Since yesterday's updates, Firefox 3 has a problem with other java scripts as well. When I play a game of online chess on Yahoo Games, which is java based, the CPU load increases to 22 %. Far too much for an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM.....

[Pjotr12345 (computertip)]

The problem with Java on Yahoo Games disappear when I disable Compiz. However, the problem remains with news tickers based on java script.

[Pjotr12345 (computertip)]

Does anybody read this thread?

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

*** This is an automated response ***

Thank you for your bugreport. Since this seems to be an issue with
version 3 of the firefox browser, I'm reassigning the package. If you
feel this is an error, please don't hesitate to add a comment to your
report.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status confirmed

[mmomjian (matthew-momjian)]

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug and sorry for the lack of response. Is this still an issue for you?

[Resolution (norman-abi02)]

The bug is still there...

In my opinion mainly for FF 3.xx under Ubuntu 8.xx AMD 64

On Ubuntu 8.10 x86 FF works fine.

On nearly all pages combining JS and PHP the CPU load goes up to 100%.

Some examples are Browsergames like howrse.de or ikariam.de.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Official support for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" on the desktop ended on May 12, 2011, and on the server on May 9, 2013. If this problem is still occurring on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" or later please press Alt+F2 to open the “Run Command” screen then type the following command to file a new bug so that we can get an up to date set of log files and system info:

ubuntu-bug firefox