Closed Bug 285767 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

firefox is constantly consuming 100% of my cpu and overheating my powerbook because of flash content

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 285275

People

(Reporter: bugs-ffox, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Firefox seems to consume all of my CPU when flash content is displayed.  I have
the most recent version of Flash plug-in installed, plugin version 7.0 r24 .  My
powerbook is a 1.25 Ghz G4 with 768MB of RAM and shouldn't be having these
problems.  I'm going to have to switch back to Safari, because I keep losing my
work when I have to force quit firefox.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix this problem.
 It has plagued Firefox since it's inception and it's totally ruining the
experience for me...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to www.drudgereport.com and wait for it to pop-up an ad window with flash
content.
2.  Go to friendster.com and have one of their banners consumer 95% of CPU.
3.

Actual Results:  
The activity monitor in Mac OS X shows Firefox consuming 95%-100% of the CPU.

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't do that.
wfm.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050311
Firefox/1.0+
Dup of bug 285275?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050312
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

Reporter, could you please try a newer build.
Blocks: 300398
I see the same thing happenning with FireFox 1.0.6. After visiting
http://www.timewatch.org/ firefox-bin uses more than 95% of the CPU constantly.
FireFox has AdBlock installed but I can't get far enough to block the Flash app
causing the problem. My system is an Athlon 2200 with Linux version
2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.0
20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)) #1 Fri Jul 15 00:52:32 EDT 2005.
Can I change this to:
Status: Confirmed
Hardware: All
OS: All
???

Appens here:
http://applications.linux.com/applications/05/08/25/1524240.shtml?tid=13

with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-PT; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717
Firefox/1.0.6
(In reply to comment #2)
> Dup of bug 285275?

Yes I think so.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 285275 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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BTW, reporters, have any of you tried FF 1.5 beta yet?
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
actually i am on beta 2 and this problem is there (285275 still has to be fixed
or improved someway)
Still in final of 1.5.
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