The totem-mozilla plugin doesn't provide any way to disable visualisations, even if you disable them from the main totem menu.
This means that all audio streams that are shown in the plugin have the default 'goom' visualisation, which is very processor intensive and makes slow machines very sluggish.
I've attached a patch which disables visualisations completely. It would be nice if this could be the default behaviour in ubuntu, at least until upstream provides some way of manually disabling it, for a number of reasons:
1) visualisations like this needlessly waste power, especially on battery
2) visualisations make sound playback on slow computers choppy, and make the computer sluggish
3) no-one really needs visualisations at all.
Thanks.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: totem-mozilla 2.32.0-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 13 09:39:11 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I'm web developer and this problem affects me because I must set big dimensions of <object> element just because, if I don't, player controls cannot be accessed (clipping problem)