I haven't seen it on the windows version (XP or Vista), or the Mac version. My linux boxes are either cli-based or used for offline use, so I don't have much input there.
What extensions are you using? What about your Flash/Java/etc versions? It sounds like it's across sites, but have you noticed a certain site that "sets it off"? How much RAM is FF using? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using FF 3.5 on Mandriva 2009.1, but I suspect that the specific > versions and OS don't make too much difference. > > It seems that quite often, such as about once per day, Firefox goes > into "spin" mode where it just eats up as much CPU as it can get. On > a dual-processor machine, that means that "top" often shows firefox > using 150% CPU. Of course the whole machine drags when there's such a > CPU hog. > > I've tried kill off the FF tabs one by one to see if any of the loaded > web pages were the culprit. Nope, even if I kill off all the tabs, > firefox still spins and eats the CPU. > > Has anyone else noticed this unfortunate behaviour? It's not new with > 3.5; I know it also happened with 3.1. But if it happens so often, why > hasn't Mozilla see it (and fixed it?) Otherwise, it's a great > browser. > > Jim > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
