Firefox uses 100% CPU and becomes nonresponsive with 2 tabs open that visit www.askmen.com

Bug #348625 reported by Archis
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Repro steps:
1. Go to www.askmen.com
2. Visit some articles and open 4-5 tabs
3. FF will start using 100% CPU

I don't know whether it's the script engine or not, but the browser becoming nonresponsive is just plain annoying.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
Revision history for this message
Archis (archisgore) wrote :
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Rilium (rilium) wrote :

This bug is also affects me. For this site too, but not only for this.
For me, it mostly happen's when playing ANY video with adobe flash plugin, but also with many other diffrent types flash content.

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