Firefox 3 Lags on Flash Sites

[GuitarRocker2562]

Binary package hint: firefox

     I am on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 4 with the latest updates and whenever I browse to a site Firefox gets extremely laggy especially while loading the flash content. Firefox gets so laggy that I can not switch tabs or open the program's menu (file, edit, etc.) I am using flash 10, which was installed be default when installing.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for your bugreport. Since this seems to be an issue with
version 3 of the firefox browser, I'm reassigning the package.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status new

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

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!

[vajorie (vajorie)]

I have this issue as well. I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid, up to date as of today, with a custom kernel 2.6.27-8-eeepc, on a eee pc 701 and 2GB RAM (memtest says it's fine). This hardware performed fine with the below sites in Xandros stock distro that came with my eee pc when it had 512MB RAM.

Browser info:
* Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030422 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.7
* libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
* installed addons: adblock, noscript, tiny menu, speed dial (issue is same with clean profile)

problem sites:
* youtube is ok
* spankwire lags (frames skip) with constant 100% cpu <= NOT SAFE FOR WORK
* tnaflix (NOT SAFE FOR WORK) both skip frames + 100% cpu + slows down browser operations like opening the menu etc.

when I say "flash skips", I mean it plays like a stop motion movie, frame by frame, each frame about half-a-second long or so. sound is not affected. bandwidth seems not to be the issue (or sound would cut too).

please let me know if you need more info.

and sorry for the links above that are now gonna go to ppl's inboxes, but I couldn't find a way to reopen this without mentioning where the problem shows itself.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

We are unable to support custom kernels or any other custom app. Please tesst with our kernel and file a new bug on it using Help>Report a problem from Firefox menu.
More than likely this problem is cauased by flash not firefox anyway.

[darhon (darhon)]

I affirm that bug still exists

Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:00:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8

[vajorie (vajorie)]

Status says "incomplete". Is there some info we should be providing? If so, could you please specify it? thanks :)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]