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plugin-container consumes a lot of CPU

Bug #808258 reported by Jose Ramon Huerga on 2011-07-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #635023: firefox plugin-container using 99% CPU - overheating and lock-up. Edit Remove

This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Having Firefox open with a dozen tabs is painful for the CPU, specially when some of the tabs contain Facebook, Yammer, etc. Using 'top' you can easily see that most of the CPU is wasted by firefox-bin and also by plugin-container. On a laptop this implies that the batteries run out of energy earlier.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 10 10:08:57 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/plugin-container
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.26ubuntu0.11.04.1
adobe-flashplugin N/A
icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-18 (21 days ago)

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Jose Ramon Huerga (jrhuerga) wrote on 2011-07-10:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (38.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (792 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (73 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-08-31

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Martin Mrazik (mrazik) wrote on 2011-11-24:

I'm seeing this in 11.10 (install from scratch) as well. plugin-container eats up all my CPU cores. There are also at least 4-5 other bugs with the same issues (but in a non-confirmed state).