Firefox is getting away with murder

Vin¢

I don't know what changed, but I must be doing something wrong.

Time: Now.
Setting: Compaq Presario M2000, 1.5GHz Celeron, 512Mb RAM, Kubuntu 6.06. Typ. usage: 1 OO doc, 1 Firefox w/ 2 tabs, 1 Konqueror for file browsing.

Since my last debacle (rdiff-backup referencing its own backup folder), top has become a very good friend.

What my friend tells me now, is that firefox-bin is intermittently taking up between 0 and 60% of my CPU, with occasional gusts up to 89%. Sometimes it'll crash afterward, sometimes it just boggs the machine down until I have to hard reset.

Not cool, particularly not during finals week when I have eighteen pages due Monday am.

Any help would be appreciated,
Vin¢

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Submitted by Vin¢ on Thu, 2006-12-07 20:04. login or register to post comments

db
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Checkout these links

Checkout these links on the subject:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2325

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=184258

Perhaps it is the sites that you frequent using flash ads that are causing you fits?

Cheers,
Dave Brown

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Cheers,
Dave Brown


Sun, 2006-12-10 11:48 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Java

I've also had Java applets take over the browser and lock up the machine. I typically leave Java disabled to work around that.


Wed, 2006-12-13 12:51 login or register to post comments