606838 - Firefox hangs or freezes for few seconds while streaming video

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[alvin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11

Firefox hangs or freezes for few seconds while streaming video, after that it will become normal again. The frequency of this bug happens is quite frequent to me, it is very annoying.

The bug happens while streaming video, mostly are flash videos, such as youtube and facebook videos.

The bug happens only after updating to version 3.6.11

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
No exact steps. Just open few tabs at the same time for surfing webs and streaming some videos, will meet the problem sometimes.
Actual Results:  
Firefox hangs or freezes for few seconds, then comes back to normal again.

Expected Results:  
Firefox hangs or freezes for few seconds, then comes back to normal again.

I found this bug after updating to version 3.6.11. I haven't met this problem before.

Comment 1

[Naseer]

I too started facing the issue after I upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04. All scenarios are same

Comment 2

[Adrien Leygues - Voulf]

Hey!

I'm also facing the problem for severals months now.

It doesn't seems to appear on a specific computer nor with add-ons.

I cannot view correctly video on youtube / dailymotion / Vimeo via the Flash plug-in on the following setups :
- White Mac Book - 4 Go Ram - Firefox 7 - No Add-ons @ Home
- PC Windows 7 Desktop Core 2 Quad CPU - 4 Go Ram - Firefox 7 - No-Addons @ Home
- PC Windows 7 Portable Quad Core - 8 Go Ram - Firefox 7 - Firebug, Webdevelopper ToolBar, Color Contrast @ Work

I have observed this also happends with older version of Firefox 4,5 and 6.

Regards,

Adrien

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.