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

[Tod Thomas]

Hugh Caley wrote:
> Sometime after opening Firefox 3 in Fedora 10 it will start grabbing 
> 90% of the CPU until it is closed again.  I am running FlashBlock but 
> that only seems to delay the time somewhat until the cpu goes to 90%.
>
> Is there nothing else that can be done about this?  If Adobe won't fix 
> the problem, don't we have to do something?
>
> Hugh
>
Is your video card using the ATI Radeon chipset?  Mine is and I was 
running into a similar problem with Firefox and Thunderbird.  
Uncommenting and setting:

Option     "AccelMethod" "XAA"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixed my problem.  This was a quick fix.  I didn't 
research it any further than google so YMMV.  I'm using WindowMaker as 
my window manager.


- Tod