problem loading video from bbc news site

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Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Running Ubuntu 8.04 on quad 8660 processor. screen goes grey and system slows to near dead when pages from BBC news site are loaded that have video clips on them. Takes several minutes to even be able to shut the system down.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 26 16:13:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic x86_64