Hello John, Under ideal conditions Firefox would not consume any CPU resources when it's not doing anything (i.e. sitting on about:blank). For whatever reasons, it is using the CPU twice a second for a very short time - like it or not, that's how it's been wired and I don't intend to file a bug against it, because in comparison with other programmes running on the system, that is hardly noticeable.
What happens now is that once Firebug is installed, those 2 times become 13 times... for no apparent reason, and while still sitting on that about:blank, Firebug causes a larger CPU- and hence power- consumption which as I wrote on my system leads to an estimated 20 minutes shorter battery capacity. So what do we do about it? On Feb 10, 6:22 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 3:19 pm, George Georgovassilis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > As I'm facing some dev-time time away from a powerplug, I thought I'd > > bring this up. On a 64bit 2.6.36 Linux kernel, running FF 3.6 and > > Firebug 1.6.2 on a (the only) blank page, firefox-bin causes according > > to powertop 13 wakeups / second, reducing (according to powertop) the > > time-to-recharge by 20 minutes. When disabling Firebug, these drop to > > around 2 / second. > > Sorry I have no idea what this means. > jjb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
