Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Christian Walther wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I

FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too. I didn't notice this issue with Konqueror with KDE 3.5.5.

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too.

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Opera, does it have the same issue? No idea, but using a lot of cpu during activity isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's there to be used. The question is, is your system unacceptably slow when using Firefox? AMD Turion(tm) 64

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Walther
On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that