Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

Néstor rotsen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 22:42:15 UTC 2009


I had the problem with FF taken too much of my resources, so I do not use it
as often.
I use Chrome more often.  FF has more tools available.

:-)

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:51:58 -0700
> Hugh Caley wrote:
>
> > Sometime after opening Firefox 3 in Fedora 10 it will start grabbing 90%
> > of the CPU until it is closed again.  I am running FlashBlock but that
> > only seems to delay the time somewhat until the cpu goes to 90%.
> >
> > Is there nothing else that can be done about this?  If Adobe won't fix
> > the problem, don't we have to do something?
>
> What does Adobe have to do with Firefox?
>
> If your problem is with websites that use Flash, then it's a Flash issue,
> not a
> Firefox issue.  Do you have still the problem when you don't use those
> websites?  What if you remove the Flash plugin from your Firefox
> installation?
> Does the problem go away?
>
> If your problem is with Flash and not with Firefox, then are you using the
> 32-bit or 64-bit version of Flash?  Does it happen only with the Flash
> stuff on
> one particular website, or with several?  Do you still see the problem on
> commonly-used Flash sites like youtube?
>
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