Bug 18356

Summary:	Firefox freeze when multiple tabs have flash playing
Product:	swfdec	Reporter:	David <jacobdm1011>
Component:	library	Assignee:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Severity:	critical
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description David 2008-11-02 12:24:28 UTC

I just loaded Ubuntu 8.10 and when I installed a flash player in Firefox, I decided to give swfdec a try.  I then went to Youtube to see how it worked.  It worked just fine when I only had one movie playing, but whenever I tried to open more than one (each in their own tab) Firefox would freeze up.  I pulled up the system monitor, and Firefox was using all of one of my processors (I have a dual core), and there was a consistent download going on that never ended.  I tried this multiple times, and each time I had to force firefox to quit.

Comment 1 Riccardo Magliocchetti 2008-11-03 08:48:02 UTC

0.8.2 fixed a freeze with h264 video on youtube.com, please try it when available for your distro or try compiling it from source.

Comment 2 Riccardo Magliocchetti 2008-11-15 09:52:49 UTC

Ok, switched to 0.8.2 myself: 8 youtube.com videos playing concurrently with at least one of them h264/aac and no hangs. And i have a low spec machine for these days.
Please reopen if 0.8.2 does not fix the issue for you.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18463 ***

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