366895 - Firefox CPU utilization went to 50% while sucking memory continuously

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Man-wai Chang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

While displaying a youtube movie, the CPU utilization shooted up to 50%, while sucking memory at about 10K per second.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.youtube.com
2. search for "ryuki final movie"
3. Scroll down to  "Kamen Rider Ryuki FINAL Movie (3/9)"
4. right click the link, open it new tab to start the movie
5. now watches the movie, open the task manager
6. Watch how the CPU and memory utilization goes up
Actual Results:  
CPU utilization goes up to 50% and more

Expected Results:  
CPU utilization at about 10%

I am not sure whether it's Youtube's webpage issue....

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you stil see this when using flash v10?
use about:plugins to show which version of flash is installed.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

@Reporter, we have not heard back from you in a while, so I am closing this bug as INCOMPLETE. You can reopen this bug if more information becomes available. Some helpful information you can provide us is found at http://quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines. You should also use a recent version of Firefox, from http://www.getfirefox.com.