Firefox eats all my processor power
taharka
res00vl8 at alltel.net
Sat Jun 17 14:02:11 UTC 2006
Howdy,
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:01 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:55 -0400, Nigel J. Terry wrote:
> [snip]
> > I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only
> > happens with some pages, try:
> >
> > http://free.grisoft.com
> >
> > When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up >90% of my
> > processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO and it makes no
> > difference
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> It's the javascript that's eating up the cpu cycles. Try that site with
> javascript disabled and you'll see the difference.
Speaking of javascript, it's not a good idea to be running it. Have a
look at the "Noscript" extension extension for Firefox. It gives you the
option for temporarily enabling javascript for sites where you
absolutely need it ;-) You can also specify which sites you want it
enabled for.
> Regards,
> Patrick
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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