I'm seeing this in 11.10 (install from scratch) as well. plugin- container eats up all my CPU cores. There are also at least 4-5 other bugs with the same issues (but in a non-confirmed state).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808258 Title: plugin-container consumes a lot of CPU Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Having Firefox open with a dozen tabs is painful for the CPU, specially when some of the tabs contain Facebook, Yammer, etc. Using 'top' you can easily see that most of the CPU is wasted by firefox-bin and also by plugin-container. On a laptop this implies that the batteries run out of energy earlier. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 10 10:08:57 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/plugin-container FirefoxPackages: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.26ubuntu0.11.04.1 adobe-flashplugin N/A icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_ES:en LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-18 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/808258/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
