434500 - With many firefox windows opened, youtube videos does not play

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 436686

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stealthmech]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

When many firefox windows are opened, youtube videos does not play, or play only for 3 seconds and then stops until manually restarted, and no audio is audible from them. The same sites in IE play ok

I have 2 GB of ram on winxp sp2, A64 3200+ at 2.4ghz rock solid, ati x800gto2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a youtube video, let it play, then open a new one in a new window or tab without closing old one
2. continue until 8 / 10 windows (sometimes with firefox2 even only 6)

Actual Results:  
- no audio in videos, sometimes videos does not play

Expected Results:  
- videos should play correctly

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That is a bug in the flashplayer v9 and should be fixed in v10.
BTW:If you report a bug about a plugin then always include the used plugin version