711142 - Animated images are crashing the shockwave plugin on mac

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Hess]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

I have firefox 8.0 installed on a Mac running OS 10.7.  In animated images in yahoo mail and posted on various sites (such as http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/4088691.html), the "firefox plugin process Shockwave Flash) uses gradually more CPU until it maxes at 100% and "chokes" the function of the rest of the machine.

These images always produce this issue.  These images do not appear to be either Flash or Shockwave in nature.


Actual results:

The process goes to 100% cpu utilization and does not recover without manually killing the process.


Expected results:

The image should have been displayed and handled without a process crash.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Which version of Flash are you using? You can type about:plugins in the URL bar to check.

Comment 2

[Ian Hess]

Shockwave Flash

    File: Flash Player.plugin
    Version: 10.1.102.64
    Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl

Comment 3

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Please upgrade to Flash 11.1.102.55 from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Does it still happen?

Comment 4

[Ian Hess]

Upgrading to this newer version of Flash solves the issue.  CPU utilization on the flash process does not rise over 1.1%.  Thanks.