firefox is regularly dying

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, François Cami wrote:
>
>> Next step would be to remove flash, and / or add NoScript to the mix
>> : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
>
>  yup, that makes a *huge* difference.  with the noscript addon but
> flashplayer installed, firefox without playing flash is sitting at
> about 15% CPU (which it's *never* done before now).  playing flash
> pops it up to about 85%, but it drops again as soon as i stop flash.
> thanks.
>
>  at this point, given that i'm not an FF expert, how does one
> determine where FF is spending its time?  i'd certainly like to visit
> a number of sites and see a histogram of what's costing me all that
> processing time.

I would recommend to try another video driver, of course switching of any 
3D if you use them. If you want to trace what 
FF is doing you can use some of the trace tools (e.g. strace) but be 
prepared for a lot of lowlevel info, that may or may not help you.


> rday

Adam Pribyl