594792 - How do I stop loading of tabcandy_howto.webm?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100909 Firefox/4.0b6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100909 Firefox/4.0b6pre

FF/MF continues to load tabcandy_howto.webm even if the video area has been closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new browser window (Ctrl-N).
2. Press the tab candy button.
3. A video object titled "How to organize your tabs" appears.
4. close that video area with (X)
5. observe with some network tool, that the loading of the video continues.
Actual Results:  
Loading of the video continues until finished or the new browser window is closed.

Expected Results:  
Loading of the video terminates as soon as the video-area is closed.

Comment 1

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Stefan, we are currently planning to change the firstrun experience so that the video is actually loaded in its own tab, at which point this bug will no longer apply.

Comment 2

[Stefan]

Which notion/interpretation of "first" does apply here? The thing is that the webm video start every time I create a new browser window.

Comment 3

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Which notion/interpretation of "first" does apply here? The thing is that the
> webm video start every time I create a new browser window.

Bug 593157 will fix the behavior of "first".

Comment 4

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

This bug will no longer apply soon as we are removing the first-run video item and instead opening a new tab on startup with a welcome page (bug 596075).

Comment 5

[Stefan]

Is anybody working on the audio/video object leak?

Comment 6

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Stefan, what leak are you referring to? If you mean the video loading issue which is this bug, it will no longer be an issue once bug 596075 lands.