Firefox eats all my processor power

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 15:33 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Actually as someone else suggested Jvascript is the culprit. Turning
> it off dropped the CPU usage from 70% to 7%.

'twas not the only offender.  My Firefox, on the mentioned website [1],
was around 50% busy in its usual configuration.  I simply switched off
the site's styling effects, and it dropped down to it's usual, somewhere
around 10% busy.

The advice still stands:  Turn off styling, and the browser has less
work to do.  Same goes for JavaScript, Java, plug-ins, etc.

I installed a plug-in [2] to quickly turn styling off and on, I haven't
got around to doing the same for JavaScript.  It's a slow and tedious
job to go through the preferences, and I usually don't find JavaScript
too much of problem.  Not to mention that disabling it disables some
sites completely.  Bad page styling, on the other hand, I find a
continual problem (micro fonts, stupid colours, overlapping text, etc.),
and it doesn't usually make a site impossible to use with it turned off.

1:  <http://free.grisoft.com>
2: "Read Easily" extension <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1224/>

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