274121 - Flash plugin eats loads of CPU

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 238935

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rolf A. Vaglid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

In flash-heavy pages like http://www.digi.no/ taskmanager reports that firefox
consumes around 50% CPU at all times. Switching to another tab or window makes
it drop to 0, so I guess this really is a problem in Flash/Shockwave. 
Please confirm whether its Firefox or Flash.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Open a flash-heavy site like http://www.digi.no/
3. Watch the task manager

Actual Results:  
Firefox consumes from 40% to 60% of CPU. 
When navigating to another tab or window, CPU drops to around 2 to 5%.
It seems its the rendering of the flashelemnts that eats CPU. 

Expected Results:  
Ultimately there should be just a slight rais in CPU on Flash-pages, or, at
lease an option to turn off flash/shockwave for spesific sites, or turn it ON
for specific sites.

Comment 1

[Rolf A. Vaglid]

Attachment: Taskmanager with Firefox browsing Flash-intensive site

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238935 ***