why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 00:34:22 UTC 2008
On 23/03/2008, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
> weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
> machine in terms of response.
>
> "top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly
> chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more). is this
> normal? is this what others are seeing? because if firefox 3 turns
> out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to
> dump firefox for good.
Do you have the adobe acrobat reader installed? I saw something
similar to what you describe when i installed that. Removing it again
fixed it.
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