240341 - Playback of flash content in Firefox is slower than it is in Konqueror.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219625

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philippe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

At work I noticed flash content was playing significantly faster on Windows (IE)
than on Linux. I thought the linux flash plugin sucked.

Later I happened to open a page with flash content in Konqueror and noticed the
playback seemed fast. I opened the same page in Firefox and saw a big difference.

The flash plugin is apparently no longer in cause.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a web page with a flash animation in Konqueror. Ex http://radioactif.com
2. Open the same page in Firefox.
3. Compare the playback speed.

Actual Results:  
Flash content plays faster in Konqueror. Firefox really is playing the content
too slowly. 

Expected Results:  
Flash content should play as fast in Firefox as it is in Konqueror.

My system at work is an almost generic Fedora Core 1 system. My flash plugin was
installed from Macromedia's tar.gz.

At home I also have much more customized FC1 system on which I am experiencing
the same speed difference. I installed my home plugin with apt-get from this
location: http://macromedia.rediris.es/.

I am using the same version of Firefox on both systems (0.8).

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Konqueror is running the Flash plugin in a seperate process, Mozilla and FireFox
are running the Flash plugin in the main thread - thereofore the (usually huge)
performance difference.
In theory it would be possible to run the plugin in a seperate thread - that's
bug 230017 ("RFE: Run plugins in a seperate thread").

Comment 2

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219625 ***