Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-03 Thread Stroller
On Thu, 2 April 2015, at 8:28 am, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: ... I've finished reading 'Guardian' (eg) am doing something else, but the fan is working busily, wearing itself out irritating me ; when I kill FF -- however I do it -- everything calms down. No, I'm not wasting my

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
150403 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:02:54AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:28:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: if there's only 1 tab open you kill it, it kills the whole FF job too. Fortunately, we’re not left standing in the rain :

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I kill FF restart it. That's just bad JS programming. Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab? That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 03:28:43 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I kill FF restart it. That's just bad JS programming. Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab? That's just bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:28:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab? That's just bad programming... Do you use FF yourself ? -- if there's only 1 tab open you kill it, it kills the whole FF job too. I hate it when browsers

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:02:54AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:28:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab? That's just bad programming... Do you use FF yourself ? -- if there's only 1 tab

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I kill FF restart it. That's just bad JS programming. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I kill FF restart it. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:34:19 Philip Webb wrote: 150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:34:19 Philip Webb wrote: 150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 07:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? This is version 31.5.3, with just AdBlock Plus and YesScript added. I have remerged it and saw no difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? This is version 31.5.3, with just AdBlock Plus and YesScript added. I have remerged it and saw no difference.