firefox becomes slow when playing flv files.

[cbarmpar]

Dear all,

I am using fedora core 10 and firefox 3.0.5 from the fedora repos. When i am viewing websites that include flash videos (flv files) like you tube or similar my computher becomes extremely slow. The problem is bigger when a website contains more than one flash. The npviewer.bin consumes 88% of the cpu. I downloaded the flash player from adobe but this didnt make any difference. Is that a known problem or its just something wrong with my configuration?

Many thanks in advance,
regards

[herbu]

I think your RAM is less and your processor is old.Please give your hardware information.

[cbarmpar]

Many thanks for the reply,

My configuration is P4 HT and 1GB of ram. I have windows installed in the same system and when i run firefox from there it works great.

Many thanks

[herbu]

If your hardware is that good then have you added a swap space when you installed linux?If you have alloted good swap space then its OK.This issue is a known problem.I have experienced this in my Ubuntu machine.I force quit Firefox when this happen.Another good technique is to open the system monitor and kill the .bin process.This should be a good method if you are downloading something.I hope this solves your problem.

[bigtomrodney]

Do you have the correct video driver installed? Using the wrong driver can hurt performance with Flash and other video playback.

[cbarmpar]

i haven't don't anything for my graphic gard. I thought it is supported automatically. Where can i download and istall them for the fedora distro?


Many thanks

[beniji]

Similar issue for me on Ubuntu Hardy. When I play .flv files in mplayer at the same time as watching flv in firefox the whole system slows down. After that, flvs will ONLY play slowly in mplayer until X is restarted!