Bug#555126: Version 1.9.0 has similar issue

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:21:07PM -0600, jcrout at softhome.net wrote:
> I'm having similar trouble -- CPU time is exceeds 50% and memory
> exceeds 25%.  Deb package version is 1.9.0.9-13 installed.  The
> xulrunner-stub process has traditionally been a problem for me but I
> don't believe I was having CPU/memory trouble until I installed
> swfdec-mozilla.
> 
> Linux command "which: returns a path to this: /usr/bin/xul-runner-1.9
> and output from file shows the path for the actual file.  Comments in
> the header say this:
> 
> ## This script is meant to run the mozilla-bin binary from either 
> ## mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap or mozilla/dist/bin.
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me unless installing swfdec-mozilla changed
> the symlink from something else.  This note appears in a script that
> I've seen after downloading the bin from the firefox/mozilla site. (As
> I recall, anyway).
> 
> Regarding the reply from Mike (set MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1), what
> does this do?  (I'm guessing it isn't doing what it appears to do.  The
> app likely knows if it is running the plug-in, or not.)

MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS disables plugins, all of them. xulrunner will
then even not attempt loading them. Please try that (and verify that
going to the about:plugins url shows you an empty list).

Mike