[olug] Firefox = high cpu load

[Jon Larsen]

Try running Firefox in Safe-mode (no-extensions) to see if the behavior 
changes.

./firefox -safe-mode

Jon L.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Daniel Linder wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:54:02 -0600 (CST)
> From: Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Cc:  <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Firefox = high cpu load
> 
> 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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