655286 - buffering is incessant

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[tommy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

since the upgrade to firefox 4 any video on any page is constantly buffering. this does not occur in chrome or ie8-9. this can be reproduced on 3 different computers in different locations. all 3 boxes are high end boxes with i-7 920 6-8gb ram, 1gb vid etc. this only happens since firefox 4 upgrade. From research done I have ascertained that this is a major problem in firefox 4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit any page with video. ie: youtube or the daily show
2.attempt to watch any video
3.

Actual Results:  
constant buffering

Expected Results:  
played the video without the constant buffering

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Is your Issue reproducible without Extensions in Safe-Mode and/or using a new Profile?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile

Can you name the Flash Version your Issue happens with?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

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