Bug 114165

Summary:	[Qt] YouTube HTML5 video player keeps loading video even if the tab is closed
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	jingdow
Component:	Media	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	allan.jensen, pnormand
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	88186

Description jingdow 2013-04-08 05:30:49 PDT

The issue is quite simple to reproduce: open your qtwebkit browser (QupZilla, Arora, Rekonq, Konqueror, doesn't matter), load some longer video from YouTube (but previously configure YouTube for HTML5: www.youtube.com/html5) and close the tab. Watch your network activity and you will notice the video continues to load in background until it is fully loaded or until you quit your browser.

I haven't able to reproduce this with Qt5.

carewolf on IRC suspects it might have something to do with gstreamer in webkit.

Comment 1 jingdow 2013-04-09 00:03:30 PDT

Another example page where this happens is here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/23/hardware-accelerating-everything-windows-8-graphics.aspx

Comment 2 Philippe Normand 2013-05-13 03:11:01 PDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 109350 ***

Comment 3 Allan Sandfeld Jensen 2013-05-17 08:09:44 PDT

Possible work-around: Call setHtml("") before closing the tab.