Hello. I've noticed that there is a constant problem with high CPU usage with www/firefox on my laptop (Thinkpad T430, dual-core i5, 8 Gt RAM). The high CPU usage is primarily on the firefox process itself.
Firefox is installed from FreeBSD-latest repository, and all the related components are also vanilla, so the should be no margin for user error. I can reproduce the high CPU usage just by opening a couple dozen tabs and then letting Firefox run for a few hours. In order to fix this high CPU usage, I would need to figure out how much time gets spent in which components of Firefox, ie. I need to profile Firefox. However, I lack knowledge on how to do this. The "official" documentation only mentions installing the profiler plugin (.xpi), but the plugin does NOT work on FreeBSD out of box. It doesn't work even if I build Firefox with profiling support enabled. So ... how can profile Firefox, any ideas? How do you guys do it? Is there some complicated set of utilities I need to use? -- Arto Pekkanen
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