Firefox eats all my processor power

Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Sun Jun 18 00:31:26 UTC 2006


Hi,

I have tried that page and my procesor goes to 47%, but when i tried the
same on Opera, goes justo to 7%, so give Opera a try, i really dont know why
Opera uses less micro power on almost all kind of pages.

regards,

Guillermo.


On 6/17/06, Nigel J. Terry <nigel at nigelterry.net> wrote:
>
>  Motor wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:12:48 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
>
>    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.
>
> 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.
>
>  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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway... thanks for the advice.
>
>    I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only happens
> with some pages, try:
>
> http://free.grisoft.com
>
> 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
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Nigel
>
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