speaking of firefox beastlyness...

[Rick Stevens]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> I seem to be encountering more and more web pages where
> firefox will go totally sluggish and I'll see my gkrellm
> monitor showing a CPU pegged at 100%.
> 
> Is there any kind of a firefox performance plugin that measures
> time spent inside other firefox plugins and provides a
> web page with a summary of the piggy plugins?
> 
> Or I wonder if I could do it from outside firefox, sampling
> the PC address and correlating it with shared library names (which
> often map to plugins).
> 
> P.S. I know for a fact is isn't flash, because I run with flash
> disabled 99% of the time specifically to avoid nonsense like
> this :-).

I've noticed it a lot when Java is involved.  Not sure if switching to
a true Java as opposed to IcedTea would help...haven't had a chance to
futz with it.
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