[olug] Firefox = high cpu load

[Jon Larsen]

Impressions I got from FF2 is that it was a 'marketing release' with some 
refinements and a couple added features to come out around the time of 
IE7.  Fedora hasn't included it in an update to FC6 for those reasons, 
instead waiting for F7.

Jon L.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:24:39 -0600
> From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3 at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Firefox = high cpu load
> 
> 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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