Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:43:37 -0700
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> > fwiw - I have found the AdobeReader plugin to Firefox far more hostile
> > than the Flash plugin and the latest versions on i386 seem to be a bit
> > better behaved. In the past, I have removed the plugin
> > from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (nppdf.so) and found that a much better
> > solution but you need to repeat that each time you install an
> > AdobeReader update.
> 
> I agree, and I do exactly the same thing here.
> 
> Have you noticed dead-dog slow printing with acroread 9?  acroread 8 prints in
> a few seconds on a HP5100 printer; acroread 9 takes ten minutes or more to
> print the same page.
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I rarely go to dead tree format these days so no. If the test were with
the exact same document and uninstall AR9 and re-install AR8 and
verifiable, it would be interesting but too many other variables often
sneak in otherwise.

Craig


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