[ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

[Colin Law]

On 2 February 2014 13:13, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo.
>> > 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2
>> > I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it.
>> >
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>> The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org,
>> unarchive, and run:
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>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/
>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/
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>> ;)
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> I had a very similar problem with Ubuntu 9.04 with both Firefox and
> Thunderbird that seemed to be related to the Flash plugin, but also
> manifested itself with the OpenJDK plugin. I also ended up switching to the
> Aurora build but ultimately switched to Chrome. The issue seemed to be that
> the plugin (whichever one it was) didn't die when the client code was killed
> and would just start eating up cycles. Restarting Firefox (or Thunderbird)
> would solve the problem but I had to block Flash to prevent it from
> happening. I suspect that it may be related to the internal architecture on
> specific processors which is why it's not a common issue. I certainly
> haven't had it for some time.

I don't think it is flash related.  I have flash blocked with
Flashblock and I am fairly certain I have seen it fail in situations
where I have not manually started flash running.
I don't have a java plugin at all.

Colin