Firefox 1.0.7 takes 100% CPU [was: Re: Firefox 1.5 very high load]

[Nick C]

On 03.01.2006 08:32, Mario Splivalo wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:01 +0100, Eric Feliksik wrote:
>> Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
>>> Hi friends,
>>>
>>> I've installed Firefox 1.5 (on breezy) from Mozilla's FF installer not 
>>> Ubuntu's deb files
>>> Now when I want to save an image in a site my cpu load goes very high 
>>> and this took very much time, I have the same prob when I want to attach 
>>> something from my HDD in a web page...
>>> I don't have such problems with FF 1.0.7
>>>
>>> I'm using the latest FF release from mozilla site
>>> Any solutions ?
>>>
>> I experienced this too. No clue where it comes from, I just sit and wait 
>>   until more people use 1.5 and feel the pain :-P
>>
> 
> I'm having almost similair problems with 1.0.7. When I open some pages,
> for instance http://www.index.hr (Croatian news portal - and I'm
> adblocking all the flash from there - I just have those scrolling text
> on the right side), my CPU load goes to 70-80%. If I have two, three or
> more tabs open, then the load is 100%, and I feel the slowdown of the
> system. The same happens with http://www.vecernji-list.hr, for instance.
> On the same machine I have booted WindowsXP, where I also installed
> Firefox 1.0.7, and I don't experience that problem there.

With Firefox 1.5 from mozilla.org and www.index.hr open without
adblocking, my firefox-bin process takes 14% of CPU. At the same time I
have opened XChat, Azureus, this Thunderbird with Compose window open,
Firefox 1.5 with two tabs (one tab is www.index.hr) and streamripper; my
CPU is at 44%.

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