I am forced to use IE till GIF animation problems are fixed

NeedHelpSoon · Post by **NeedHelpSoon** » November 29th, 2006, 6:35 pm

Try loading this image
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/latest ... anim.3.gif
It locks Firefox till it's completely loaded and each time you hit F5 to refresh it goes through the same CPU memory hog process over and over. Used to work before 1.5.6

Please change the animation code whatever you did doesn't work!

Post by **Daifne** » November 29th, 2006, 6:42 pm

Doesn't lock my Firefox...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » November 29th, 2006, 6:59 pm

Try firefox safe mode. My Firefox 2.0 doesn't go above 9% CPU or slow down while loading that animation. (Also when I F5 refresh it loads from the cache instantly, i have to do ctrl-F5 to make it reload from internet).
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

schapel · Post by **schapel** » November 29th, 2006, 7:36 pm

NeedHelpSoon wrote:It locks Firefox till it's completely loaded and each time you hit F5 to refresh it goes through the same CPU memory hog process over and over. Used to work before 1.5.6

I have 0% CPU usage while the animation is moving. Maybe there's a problem with your video drivers?

Kab · Post by **Kab** » November 29th, 2006, 7:52 pm

Ditto. I have over 50 extensions (:P) and 5 themes installed on this FF version I'm using right now and I can still view that GIF perfectly. My CPU usage stays at 2% while viewing.

NeedHelpSoon · Post by **NeedHelpSoon** » November 30th, 2006, 11:15 am

I have found the culprit : Google Browser Sync

Once installed the animated GIF causes Firefox to peg the CPU @100% using more and more memory till it's done doing ??? Hit F5 and it starts all over again.
Uninstalling does no good?

Anyone else use this ?? I recommend NOT installing this Add-On

I have sent a message to google labs -> labs+browsersync@google.com asking for Help...

schapel · Post by **schapel** » November 30th, 2006, 8:40 pm

Thanks for the information! I've added Google Browser Sync to the list of <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions">problematic extensions</a>.

Kab · Post by **Kab** » December 1st, 2006, 1:31 am

schapel, you may add Media Connectivity 0.8.3 to the problematic extensions too. Once the update downloaded until I manually removed it from my extensions folder, FF2 would not start or start and then crash immediately even in SafeMode on a new profile with only 5 other extensions. Previous versions worked fine but the new one does not.
BTW its folder would be under this name: {84b24861-62f6-364b-eba5-2e5e2061d7e6}

schapel · Post by **schapel** » December 1st, 2006, 1:07 pm

Kab wrote:schapel, you may add Media Connectivity 0.8.3 to the problematic extensions too. Once the update downloaded until I manually removed it from my extensions folder, FF2 would not start or start and then crash immediately even in SafeMode on a new profile with only 5 other extensions. Previous versions worked fine but the new one does not.
BTW its folder would be under this name: {84b24861-62f6-364b-eba5-2e5e2061d7e6}

You should probably report the problem to the extension author. The extension seems to work with Firefox 2, but is incompatible with one of your five other extensions. Without knowing what those extensions are, it's hard to describe what the exact problem is.

Kab · Post by **Kab** » December 1st, 2006, 1:48 pm

Thanks. Well I've tried today with a new install and its working fine. The problem seems to be only when its updating.

I am forced to use IE till GIF animation problems are fixed

I am forced to use IE till GIF animation problems are fixed

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