firefox memory consumption 100% on Lucid 64

[Vaibhav Dalvi]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I am using Ubuntu 64 bit 10.04.
> >> I am not doing any thing other than web browsing on my machine.
> >> I see many times firefox3.6.8 consuming 100% resources.
> >> Once or twice I would have ignored it.
> >> But is is regularly happening to an extent that I need to open Command
> >> prompt
> >> and kill firefox.
> >> What should I be doing?
> >>
> >> --
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Vaibhav Dalvi <vaibhav.dlv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Must be the bloody fl at ss plugin...I usually look around what pages are
> open
> > and close all unneeded ones. Many times it's one of these pages where
> fl at ss
> > is usually misbehaving.
> >
> What is that fl at ss plugin can you give a link?
>
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Its good old *FLASH* plugin.
Which sucks a cow out of hell! [That's not my terminology, but it fits.] If
there's some way you can stop the *FLASH* plugin then you'll get rid of 100%
usage. If in your system monitor, you see the process 'plugin-container'
taking ~100% processor, then 99% it's *FLASH PLAYER* that's misbehaving. (It
can crash anything - couple of years ago it even crashed my freeDOS! - Just
Kidding.)
[From this point onwards I'm going to call it *YOU-KNOW-WHAT* plugin...Even
saying it's name is an unbearable sin! ]
[And change my signature to:
-vb
*ADOBE FLASH SUCKS!]*

-vb
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