fedora and firefox + realplayer 10 smil streams @ 99%cpu

[Skunk Worx]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> Skunk Worx wrote:
>> David Timms wrote:
>>
>>> Skunk Worx wrote:
>>>
>>>> David Timms wrote:
>>>> I am seeing this on many sites, many file types. Other stories on 
>>>> NPR do this as well. Always the situation where I am clicking on 
>>>> helper-application related content.
>>>>
>>>> Now that I have RealPlayer 10 installed (and the requisite 
>>>> libstdc++-33), I notice that the hang occurs when retrieving the SMIL.
>>>
>>> I do not have any real player installed, so that may be why I don't 
>>> see what your seeing.
>>>
>>>> Once the SMIL is in downloads, I can open it every time, instantly.
>>>
>>> :) is is worth a listen ?
>>>
>>
>> No not really but I thought it was a decent test case :-) I'm guessing 
>> it could be my cheapo mobo based video (the "via", unichrome driver).
>>
> 
> John:
> It works for me, perhaps because RealPlayer isn't involved. When I 
> clicked on the link, Firefox opened and invoked the MPlayer plugin. Got 
> the short ad for some other NPR program followed by the story. top 
> didn't show any unusual activity when I checked it.

It works fast once then goes to 99% CPU for 20-30 seconds on further 
attempts to download helper-application content.

It's something fragged in the .mozilla directory. Changing users or 
moving my .mozilla to something else, then allowing FF to regen, fixes it.

There's a lot of stuff in there, but for curiosity's sake I'll try 
sniffing for whatever borked FF.

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John