It seems you have no shortage of good advice here but: If I were you
I'd look closer at each CPU hog and see what it's doing or if there
are settings you could change to stop this behavior. For example,
there are certainly setting in Camino you could alter, but I'd start
by closing one tab at a time while watching the CPU cycles on
Activity Monitor. There's a weather web page that I use
http://www.wunderground.com/satellite/vis/1k/US/PA/Aspers.html?theprefset=OLDSAT&theprefvalue=0
that will make any browser jump to around 30% usage. But it only
does it while it's the clicked tab. Alternatively of course, you
could just open one tab at a time and watch for the abuser.
I just tried your link in Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre, and the %CPU went
from 5-15% all they way up to 70%; and it being a developer copy, it
crashed just as I was repairing the memory leak.
The big culprit is Flash. I hate it where web sites use Flash when HTML
or any other video works better--and there's no alternate path. Might not be
Paula's problem, but I've had trouble with Flash from the first time I
saw it on a web site. It's inappropriate for use on the web, until we
can get Euro or Japan/Korea broadband speeds and we can all afford to
buy the newest, fastest computers every year.
I don't hate Flash, per se. I make Flash videos. It's just not
appropriate for web sites when no alternates are offered. Buy me a new
computer! Pay for my 10-50+Mbps broadband!!! Why is fast broadband SOOO
EXPENSIVE
in the US????????????????? -- and just not available in many cases?
Flash sites make my DSL act like I'm using a 1200 baud modem.
Paula -- do the open pages in Camino have Flash ads? Can you install a
Flash blocker? Does that make a difference?
Betty
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