463237 - Very laggy

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stephan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

This may not necessarily be a bug, however, many live media players using Flash will bring Firefox to 50% CPU usage -- This is understandable, but because Firefox uses a single process window you cannot browse the web in other tabs.  I am forced to open up IE when watching streaming videos from Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

If Flash is laggy there's not much Firefox can do about it. I normally tell reporters to report problems with non-Mozilla add-ons to their developers, but Flash has always been a CPU hog so there's not much you can do. If you haven't yet updated to Flash 10 I suggest you do so, as it's much better.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Comment 2

[stephan]

Yes, but the problem is not with flash, it is Firefox having no option to open a new window in a new process.  Nearly all systems now a days have dual-core technology or MP's.  It makes no sense that FF cannot use this to it's advantage by splitting Firefox into 2 processes and binding one to each processor.  That is what Affinity exists and why my system as well as Internet Explorer are both still stable with Flash is being a CPU hog.

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

If your complaint is on lack of better process handling, I'm sure there are a few other bugs on that you can mark this a duplicate of.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

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