I should clarify that using the nvidia driver caused xorg to spike to
100% cpu usage on the troublesome pages. Switching back to the nv
driver seems to have fixed that problem.
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Firefox causes massive Xorg CPU usage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38131
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first noticed this bug when I tried to go to the apple store web site recently
after enabling my nvidia driver to get some compiz fusion effects enabled.
After disabling the driver and reverting back to the default nv driver, I no
longer have this issue. I still get large CPU usage by
