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If you're using Firefox and you're leaving it open for ages and hibernating the PC a lot too, it will create a massive memory clot and occasionally cause videos to lag.

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I don't think that there's any part of VideoSift itself that should be chomping up CPU.

However, depending on the host, some of the embed sources can really chew it up. Not trying to shift responsibility, but I noticed a definite improvement when I upgraded to the most recent version of Flash.

Also, is it all video pages, or just a particular few?

Yeah, I know. But this isn't the case here. No hibernation and I restarted firefox several times, to make sure nothing was lying around in tab-undo-buffers that could still be active.

Dag, it seems to be all video pages. I've opened a few at random and the CPU usage went through the roof. And it really seems to have happened within the last 36 hours (I was too tired to notice much of anything last night, it wasn't there the day before and it really hit me in the browser this morning).

Could this maybe be strange js includes from advertising partners? Firefox trying to finish an infinite loop in 10 seconds?

One other thing of note, I haven't upgraded FF on that machine to 3.0.11 yet. I'll do that and maybe look around for that profiling plugin for firebug. maybe that will tell me whats going on. But since I'm at work, that will have to wait for a few hours until I get home.

Edit: And we're talking linux as an OS here, although that shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless my flash plugin suddenly decided to go wonky on me overnight.

Hey there, I have a netbook (N270) too but I use chrome (its faster than firefox) - I think I know what you mean - it could be a broken ad banner - chrome lets you see what tab and what plugin (Flash for example) is doing, from its memory usage to the cpu usage, so you can then see - like in my case once, a tab that was accessing a page with 90% cpu - i just killed that tab

Anyway, I guess my ramble is to say try Chrome - and if you get a problem in Chrome press shift-esc to bring up Chrome Taskmanager

Give it a shot Keep firefox installed obviously - but try chrome.


Edit : Bollocks - Didnt see the Linux bit - aw boo. but do try another browser.

Well, something strange is definitely going on and it isn't flash.
I upgraded firefox to 3.0.11 and flash to the current version and I have the same behaviour in firefox.

I also tried konqueror as an alternative browser (no flash plugin), and the same basic thing happened, though not as severe: 3-5% CPU usage on VS video list page, ~20-30% CPU usage in a video detail page.

Inquiries are continuing.

I'm on my Eee 901 upgraded with 2GB RAM and a faster 32GB SSD. I had 11 tabs open and it was fine. There was an occasional stutter every now and then, but I get the same thing on my desktop whenever one of the side panels refreshes. I watched the CPU usage with Process Explorer, and Firefox was using about 60% CPU during video playback with some spikes to 80%. My Eee is running WinXP SP3 and Firefox 3.0.11, and the Flash player is up to date.

If you watch the same video at YouTube, does it still stutter?

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HAHAHA That's funny cause you're not even a real person

I've notice the same thing. I have an E8600 at 4.4 GHZ and I've recently noticed my system start to chug when I leave VS open in Firefox for a long time. My system doesn't hibernate. When I check the task manager in this situation, FF is eating up to 50% of my CPU, or 100% of one core.

jimnms: Good idea, and yes, the video on youtube uses less CPU: ~40-45%ish. Still a lot for a page just sitting there, but still less. The problem isn't as pronouced for me today as it was yesterday, and I haven't restarted firefox or the computer in the meantime. I'm guessing that the evil ad went away. Whatever that was.