Bug 206604

Summary:	nspluginviewer does not kill itself
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich>
Component:	nspluginviewer	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	amantia, finex, g111, le.petit.fou, rasasi78
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Hans-J. Ullrich 2009-09-07 10:35:16 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Dear maintainers,

I discovered, that the process "nspluginviewer" (part of package konqueror-nsplugins), which is initiated by
konqueror is still running, when konqueror was ended.

IMO this process should be ended, too, when konqueror is ended. The main
problem is, that the still running process "nspluginviewer" is consuming a
lot of cpu power (almost 10-15 percent), which causes two new (and not needed) things:

1. the cpu will never cool down (so on notebooks the cooler is always running and making noise)

2. inhibits to slow down cpu clock on mobile cpus (i.e. from 1,9GHz to 800Mhz in my case)

It would be nice, if you could have an eye on this problem.

BTW: For what is nspluginviewer needed? For what cases is it needed?

Thank you very much! Regards

Hans-J. Ullrich

Comment 1 Tobias Roeser 2009-09-21 15:25:05 UTC

Same problem here. Konqueror 4.3.1 under Gentoo Linux. nspluginviewer consumes about 50 percent of my cpu (dual core). No open konqueror window.

Maybe, it's because one konqueror instance is always keept in background to improve startup time (default setting).

Comment 2 g111 2009-09-25 09:06:34 UTC

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 182869?

Comment 3 Raúl 2009-10-21 23:50:19 UTC

Hello:

I also agree with this bug (KDE 4.3.2) but I think some clarifications are needed. In my opinion, this bug is about terminating nsplugin once it's not useful. I propose tracking the nsplugins spawned by konqueror (I guess) and terminating them once they are not needed anymore, for instance, when a tab relying on flash contents is closed.

Following this rationale, I don't think this is a dupe of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182869 as #2, proposed. That bug i about nsplugin bad performance.

How difficult would it be implementing my above proposal?

Thanks.

Comment 4 András Manţia 2009-12-06 19:45:07 UTC

I think it IS a duplicate of 182869.

Comment 5 Maksim Orlovich 2010-01-15 20:21:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182869 ***