486919 - On Win2KPro SP4 FireFox any version 3 and up, some pages with FLASH make 1.5GHz P4 machines run worse than a 486!

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[small.net.nz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8

On Win2KPro SP4 FireFox any version 3 and up, some pages with FLASH make 1.5GHz P4 machines run worse than a 486! The mouse hardly moves whiel flash loading and the entire PC is slow to respond to mouse clicks. This happens on my other machine running Win2KPro SP4 aswell. It doesn't happen in Linux and it certainly doesn't happen in Internet Explorer. I'm a big FireFox fan but I'm ready to throw it out and not consider it for Win2K installs anymore with flash being common place now on most sites.

www.orcon.net.nz while loading mouse can hardly move. This has happened on a few adobe flash latest releases on me. As soon as I switch tab to a non-flash site FireFox runs like a charm again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Win2K Pro SP4
2. Load www.orcon.net.nz
3. Wiggle mouse try and do ANYTHING with the flash page on screen laoding... CPU goes through the roof.
Actual Results:  
Grind teeth to the gums and switch to Internet Explorer to visit same page with same version of flash.


Loaded as fast as it does in Internet Explorer, extremely quick, and can move the mouse and click on things while page is loading without gridlock on the CPU and system.

Comment 1

[small.net.nz]

Not that last paragraph is how it SHOULD behave, which it's not in my case.

Comment 2

[small.net.nz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Not that last paragraph is how it SHOULD behave, which it's not in my case.
I mean NOTE that last paragraph is how it SHOULD behave, which it's not in my case.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I just tested the site on Windows XP and I confirm that the flash plays very slowly. The same happens BTW when I try to run movies with the last version of Silverlight; my old laptop just can't handle them. 
I haven't yet tested this case on a faster computer but I expect the flash will run a lot better when there is more CPU and memory available. 
I suspect this can't be fixed by Firefox, because Firefox doesn't make those plug-ins.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for Firefox General bugs filed against version 3.0 that are UNCO and have not been changed for 200 days.

Reporter, please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or alter. Firefox 3.0 is no longer supported and is no longer receiving updates. After you update, please create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/kb/managing+profiles, and test to see if your bug still exists. If you still the bug, then please post a comment with the version you tested against, and the problem. If the issue is no longer there, please set the RESOLUTION to  RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 6

[small.net.nz]

The website I used for testing has since changed their flash content and loads faster anyway. It seems to be behaving these days. I'm also using 3.6.12 and the latest flash. It seems much faster and more reliable. I always keep firefox up to date. Cheers.