Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
Christian Walther wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles eventually. Since most of these scripts are used to power adverts or some graphical stuff that really isn't necessary, I use FF with the Adblock, NoScript, and Flashblock-Extension. Adblock filters known ads, together with Adblock Filter.G Updater you get a decent list of ad placing sites. NoScript is configured to block all JavaScripts by default, and if I think that a website doesn't behave as I would expect (e.g. doesn't react on URL- oder buttonpresses in forms), I temporarily allow scripts for this site. Sites I visit regularly that require JavaScript get general permission. Flashblock teaches embedded Flash-Objects on demand-behaviour by replacing them with a play button. The Animation is only started after this button is being pressed. This puts an end to high CPU load... Strange. Firefox 2.0 doesn't appear to be much of a problem for me on my P4 2.4GHz machine. Then again I run NoScript and Adblock by default. Also, if you dig through the tabs in NoScript a bit, it has options to disable Flash stuff by default and then you can whitelist the Flash animation as well. The only problem I have had with Firefox CPU-wise has been caused by annoying, poorly created blog sites (40+ some animated gifs in the background--ate up nearly all my available CPU resources). Another thing, there were some known problems with Firefox 2.0.1 that were addressed with GTK filechoosers, if that's part of what you're doing. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles eventually. Since most of these scripts are used to power adverts or some graphical stuff that really isn't necessary, I use FF with the Adblock, NoScript, and Flashblock-Extension. Adblock filters known ads, together with Adblock Filter.G Updater you get a decent list of ad placing sites. NoScript is configured to block all JavaScripts by default, and if I think that a website doesn't behave as I would expect (e.g. doesn't react on URL- oder buttonpresses in forms), I temporarily allow scripts for this site. Sites I visit regularly that require JavaScript get general permission. Flashblock teaches embedded Flash-Objects on demand-behaviour by replacing them with a play button. The Animation is only started after this button is being pressed. This puts an end to high CPU load... Thank you for the tips, when I posted this in the list I already have Adblock installed, but I still FF acts like a hungry pig. The question now, is FF-linux runs faster than native FreeBSD FF? I highly doubt it. It's like saying Does another layer of complexity make something run better?.. most likely no. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too. I didn't notice this issue with Konqueror with KDE 3.5.5. Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 1596012523 Hz CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x40f82 Stepping = 2 Instruction TLB: 32 entries, fully associative L1 data cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way associative L1 instruction cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way associative L2 internal cache: 256 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 8-way associative real memory = 1474887680 (1406 MB) uname -a FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 22 15:02:36 AST 2006 arabian@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 886 arabian 6 890 132M 111M CPU1 1 2:55 141.99% firefox-bin Here is my make.conf CPUTYPE=k8 RELEASETAG=RELENG_6 This isn't Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
On 12/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too. Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. How about Opera, does it have the same issue? What are the specs of the machine? Mike AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Dual CPU. RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2 533 MHz. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too. Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. What are the specs of the machine? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Opera, does it have the same issue? No idea, but using a lot of cpu during activity isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's there to be used. The question is, is your system unacceptably slow when using Firefox? AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Dual CPU. RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2 533 MHz. Certainly adequate. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles eventually. Since most of these scripts are used to power adverts or some graphical stuff that really isn't necessary, I use FF with the Adblock, NoScript, and Flashblock-Extension. Adblock filters known ads, together with Adblock Filter.G Updater you get a decent list of ad placing sites. NoScript is configured to block all JavaScripts by default, and if I think that a website doesn't behave as I would expect (e.g. doesn't react on URL- oder buttonpresses in forms), I temporarily allow scripts for this site. Sites I visit regularly that require JavaScript get general permission. Flashblock teaches embedded Flash-Objects on demand-behaviour by replacing them with a play button. The Animation is only started after this button is being pressed. This puts an end to high CPU load... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE
On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it consumes all your cpu cycles eventually. Since most of these scripts are used to power adverts or some graphical stuff that really isn't necessary, I use FF with the Adblock, NoScript, and Flashblock-Extension. Adblock filters known ads, together with Adblock Filter.G Updater you get a decent list of ad placing sites. NoScript is configured to block all JavaScripts by default, and if I think that a website doesn't behave as I would expect (e.g. doesn't react on URL- oder buttonpresses in forms), I temporarily allow scripts for this site. Sites I visit regularly that require JavaScript get general permission. Flashblock teaches embedded Flash-Objects on demand-behaviour by replacing them with a play button. The Animation is only started after this button is being pressed. This puts an end to high CPU load... Thank you for the tips, when I posted this in the list I already have Adblock installed, but I still FF acts like a hungry pig. The question now, is FF-linux runs faster than native FreeBSD FF? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
