Firefox eats all my processor power

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 23:09 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Nigel J. Terry 
> >>> I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It
> >>> only happens with some pages, try:
> >>>
> >>> http://free.grisoft.com
> 
> 
> Guillermo Garron:
> >> 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.
> 
> 
> Aaron Konstam:
> > That is really strange. When google is loaded 7% of the cpu is used,
> > but when the site above is loaded 78% of the cpu is used by firefox.
> > Very strange.
> 
> Nothing really strange about it, the page is more complex than Google.
> Turn off page styling, and it requires less from your system to render
> it.  Pages with scripting, lots of graphics, or complex styling, etc.,
> will require more grunt to display.  Some will bring a system to its
> knees when you scroll the page, particularly those with fixed position
> items (background or foreground).
> 
> I haven't tried that page with Opera, nor tried Opera for a while, but
> different browsers will use different techniques for rendering their
> pages, and Opera did have a reputation for being more lightweight when I
> tried it on Windows a few years ago.  They may have a more efficient way
> of doing what that page asks it to do.
> 
Actually as someone else suggested Jvascript is the culprit. Turning it
off dropped the CPU usage from 70% to 7%.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>