Comment 13 for bug 84844

I've been having problems with this for a while now. I thought it seemed to go away either just before Ubuntu 9.04 came out, or briefly after the upgrade, but it's back with a vengeance. I had also switched system chassis lately -- originally I'd been running a Dell PowerEdge 600SC, which did not have any sound device in it, and I've now switched to a Dell OptiPlex GX280, which uses the snd-intel8x0 driver from ALSA.

Currently, I'm having trouble with some pages on the New York Times website (http://nytimes.com/), and with pages on Minnesota Public Radio's sites which have a small audio player. What's notable about the MPR player is that the player itself goes fubar shortly after it loads -- there's a little ">" play button that appears momentarily, then goes away. Then when I either close the tab or try to navigate away, the browser goes to 100% CPU usage and it must be killed. Here's an example page: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/06/coleman-franken_the_reaction.shtml

This system can normally play YouTube videos just fine, though I have occasionally had problems in the past if I closed a window while a YouTube video was still playing.

I had been blaming PulseAudio for causing this, considering that the pulseaudio daemon would still start on my old system with its soundcard-less motherboard, but I've done what I can to disable PulseAudio on this newer box and it still seems to occur.