185712 - Plugins appear to be slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182087

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Steven W. Riggins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021216 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021216 Chimera/0.6+

Playing shockwave files, flash files or Real media seems very slow in Chimera. 
Using the same media in IE seems to work ok.

Try news.com video section for example

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Yes, Plugins are quite slow with Chimera. This must be some kind of dupe...

Comment 2

[Steven W. Riggins]

I did a search on "plugin" and didn't notice any speed related bugs, hence the
report

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Here is a related bug that mentions playback speed of real content in Chimera.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182087

Comment 4

[Peter Lubczynski]

Does changing the NULL event timers help? They are currently set to 120/60 here
in |nsPluginInstanceOwner::StartTimer|:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/layout/html/base/src/nsObjectFrame.cpp#3839
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/modules/plugin/base/src/nsPluginViewer.cpp#1400

Comment 5

[Steven W. Riggins]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182087 ***