Closed Bug 151917 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Flash causes color wheels, massive performance drop

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mikeslvr, Assigned: bnesse)

References

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Details

(Keywords: perf)

Loading the aint-it-cool web site while it is running the current "GoldMember" flash banners is causing Chimera to become near unusable due to color wheels. Once the page is closed or surfed away from things return to normal. The problem is especially apperant when you attempt to scroll. Should aint-it-cool pull the ads prior to inspection this is repeatable at http://www.shockwave.com Hardware: iMac 233 Rev B./ 288 MB Software: Mac OS X 10.1.5/ Chimera Nightly 6/14/02
Duplicate of bug 106397?
Keywords: perf
I just read over the reports for 106397 and it's hard for me to say whether they're related or not as I haven't tried Fizilla under similar circumstances. Just for clarity, is Fizilla the standard Mac OS X build one gets from Mozilla.org? If so I have the 1.0 and can test. Based on the bug comments for 106397 the two sound somewhat different. The former is discussing flash running on it's own (such as a movie/animation) where as this problem is manifesting itself on pages where flash content is embeded with standard content (e.g... flash ad banners). This makes accessing page content difficult as the CPU is pegged so high that you have to wait just to scroll the page or even for mouse clicks to register. One other issue I'd like clarified for future reference, when searching for bugs prior to making a new entry just what builds should I be searching? I was limiting to Chimera. Apperantly, some bugs are being considered duplicates of Fizilla bugs but it was my understanding that Chimera was based on Machzilla or Cocoazilla.
->beard
Assignee: saari → beard
Mike, the difference between those builds is not much more than skin-deep. The internal plumbing's all the same, and the root cause of the performance problems is common to all Mac OS X Mozilla derivatives.
Blocks: 147975
the current version of Flash has some pretty heafty performance problems on win32 at least, that Macromedia is aware of. Looks like this might be an XP issue for them. ->bnesse just incase he has see something obviously wrong
Assignee: beard → bnesse
I went to the shockwave website, clicked around and didn't notice any noticeable color wheels or performance differences. 07-18 build.
(newbie - pls cut me some slack) this is not directly a moz / chimera bug. this is quicktime6's fault. add a space to the beginning of the macromedia flash browser plug-in and everything will return to normal. its because the quicktime plug loads first and takes over playing flash<6 content, and does it badly. thus make proper flash plug load first and problem goes away.
I was experiencing this issue long before I ever installed QT 6 but QT 5 was also capable of handling Flash content if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to check the OS X MIME settings for QT to see if it's set to handle Flash content or not (by default my OS 9 QT 6 install is not). The latest Chimera I tried (0.4) was exhibiting the bug but I'll look into the QT settings and report back next time I'm on OS X.
I checked the OS X settings and, as I thought, QT plug-in is not configured to handle any flash content.
Depends on: 100%CPU
-> plugins
Component: General → Plug-ins
This is a serious bug. Have we made any progress?
also see bug 165325.
QA Contact: winnie → petersen
Severity: normal → major
another good site to test: http://www.kungfoolx.com
Running on 10.1.5, using the Shockwave Flash 6.0 r40 plugin, I see no colorwheels or performance degradation at any of the sites listed in this bug. What version of the plugin is being used by people who are seeing this problem?
Weird, I was seeing this last week, and can no longer reproduce it.
That may have been related to the nsHttpChannel bug...
Marking as WFM. Doesn't seem to happen anymore. Reopen with a reproducible test case if you still see this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
No color wheels, but I'm seeing pretty miserable flash performance issues at this site: http://www.vantecusa.com/home.html with build 2002101404 and shockwave plug-in 6.0 r47 under 10.2.1. Mozilla 1.1b exhibits the same behavior, except it doesn't get quite as much CPU probably due to the event model it's using. I didn't notice problems at the other sites mentioned. MSIE uses about half the amount of processor as measured by top -s4 (say 35-40%) as Navigator does with this site so it's not a light-weight site. The version of Omniweb I have doesn't load the page.
No longer blocks: 147975
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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