Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?
Tod Thomas
fr33zone at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 14:31:05 UTC 2009
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?
>
> Hugh
>
Is your video card using the ATI Radeon chipset? Mine is and I was
running into a similar problem with Firefox and Thunderbird.
Uncommenting and setting:
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixed my problem. This was a quick fix. I didn't
research it any further than google so YMMV. I'm using WindowMaker as
my window manager.
- Tod
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