[olug] Firefox = high cpu load

Daniel Linder dan at linder.org
Thu Jan 11 17:54:02 UTC 2007


In my case, I've found some plug-ins were chewing up CPU on my machine.

You might want to turn off your plug-ins to see if it is any of those.

Dan

On Thu, January 11, 2007 12:04, Adam Haeder wrote:
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> I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1 on SuSE 10.0. After doing the normal web
> browsing thing for a few hours, almost every day I notice that my
> workstation load is > 1. 'top' says that firefox-bin is consuming 99.9% of
> the cpu. The app is responsive and everthing seems to work fine. If I
> close firefox and restart it, the load goes back down for a few more hours
> until it jumps back to 99.9% again. This seems to be unrelated to any
> plugins like flash or java or anything.
>



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