Firefox eats all my processor power

S.W. Bobcat swbobcat at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 17 18:21:03 UTC 2006


Unless you want to be on the "Bleeding Edge" you might simply want to drop 
back to FC4, which is what I have done. I thinl a lot of the problems with 
FC5 are associated with the 2.6.16 kernel series, and or wholesale changes 
that Fedora made somewhere that has broken backwards compatability both with 
some types of hardwear as well as softwear. I only wish that someone at 
Fedora would catch a clue and *fix* these problems -- that or if it is in 
the kernel itself [ as opposed to a Fedora mod of the kernel -- hard to tell 
] then I wish the kernel maintainers would *fix* the bloody kernel. There is 
NO reason why programs that both install and run under the 2.6.15 kernel 
series should no longer install and/or work under the 2.6.16 (under both FC4 
and FC5) series. I am *hoping* -- as is my buddy -- that Fedora and/or the 
kernel maintainers -- will fix these problems by the time FC6 comes out.




>From: "Nigel J. Terry" <nigel at nigelterry.net>
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>Motor wrote:
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>On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:12:48 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
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>Type "about:" as the URL and if the screen mentions anything about
>MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO, then Firefox is not picking up your export or it has
>gone.
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>export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 should be put in your local/global profile,
>you should not modify the firefox script as that get's upgraded.
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>Thanks... but it looks like Pango use was definitely disabled. (the env
>var is set in ~/.bashrc). It still feels slower than before the recent
>firefox update though.
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>I'm biting my tongue a bit, because FC5 has been a complete mess from my
>point of view. Broken sound card, GTK/GNOME performance plummeting with
>the introduction of Cairo, Evolution still crashing regularly when I quit
>while using the "Empty trash folders on exit" option. I've been an RH user
>since 1999, but I'm giving serious consideration to switching to another
>desktop and another distro.
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>Anyway... thanks for the advice.
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>I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only
>happens with some pages, try:
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>http://free.grisoft.com
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>When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up >90% of
>my processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO and it makes no
>difference
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>Any ideas?
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>Nigel
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