301866 - extreme slowdown from a flash ad at roadbikereview.com forums

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ken Yee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The page with the competitive cyclist flash ad at the top causes all tabs to be
really slow.  It's the ad about CZoom Imaging.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to URL
2.open another tab and try using it
3.notice slowdown

Actual Results:  
slow jerkiness in browser

Expected Results:  
maintain interactiveness

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yep, I see the same. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072321

Comment 2

[altosaxman]

I see this exact same issue at http://video.google.com on all the videos there. They are all jerky and make firefox shoot up in CPU usage. This is a definite bug and needs fixed quickly, for so many flash ads excist and is taking a toll on my firefox browsing.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reported URL has one flash image.
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2 + shockwave Flash 9.0 r45