[regression] firefox becomes often unresponsive for long periods of time (in particular when playing flash).

[Jerome Lacoste]

Firefox started to become very unresponsive lately (past days). The problem may not be in firefox as miro 1.2 exhibits the same problem. It looks like an X interaction issue because compiz is taking some CPU as well.

WRT firefox, it often starts taking 100% CPU (and sometimes more - 2 cores system) for 30 seconds or more. This happens often when playing videos: on youtube with flash. Video starts skipping, etc... Miro sometimes displays some warnings. I haven't tried with another video player (vlc) to see if they also have problems.

I have no idea how to debug this further as usually I can't do anything (e.g. strace firefox) until the system becomes responsive again.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

flash issue. might be fixed by flash 10 and improved sound handling in intrepid.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Jerome Lacoste (jerome-lacoste)]

I don't see the problem with 8.10 (flash 10 & FF 3.0.5). Closing it is OK.