Closed Bug 1577976 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

continuous intensive disk writes to mediacapabilities data.mdb trying to view gif on twitter

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(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

70 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1479203

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(Reporter: westsonoma, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

restart in safe mode

go to https://twitter.com/iAMHinton/status/1166824032244817920

Actual results:

continuous intensive disk writes, never shows gif

Expected results:

show stupid gifs with minimal or no disk writes

the only win 7 64 browsers i found that renders these two gifs
maxthon v5.2.7.5000
Epic Privacy Browser Version 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (32-bit)

Tried:
QtWeb - no
Midori - no
Chrome Canary - no
K-Meleon - no
Opera Neon - no
Torch - no
SlimBrowser - no
Sleipnir - no
Cyberfox - no
PaleMoon - no
Lunascape6 - no no no (Trident hangs browser)
Avant - no no no no (ff engine writes continuously)
Chromium - "the media could not be played" so that's a no but at least it is a selfawarewolf
Yandex - no
Opera - no
Superbird - no

Westsonoma, you are having this issue because of some Windows Media Foundation limitation on Windows 7. Please see Bug 1479203.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

(In reply to Simona Badau from comment #3)

Westsonoma, you are having this issue because of some Windows Media Foundation limitation on Windows 7. Please see Bug 1479203.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1479203 ***

Thanks for the info but i wonder why epic and maxthon both show the vids correctly on the same machine if it is an OS level problem?
custom 264 decoders maybe?
I guess it doesn''t matter since it's EOL'd

Thanks.

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