[olug] Firefox = high cpu load

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Adam Haeder wrote:
> 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.

I've heard enough weird things about FF 2 that I'm sticking with 1.5.x 
for now.


Tim

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