Firefox 1.0.7 takes 100% CPU [was: Re: Firefox 1.5 very high load]

Giorgos pinkisntwell at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 09:15:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 08:32 +0100, Mario Splivalo wrote:

> 
> I'm having almost similair problems with 1.0.7. When I open some pages,
> for instance http://www.index.hr (Croatian news portal - and I'm
> adblocking all the flash from there - I just have those scrolling text
> on the right side), my CPU load goes to 70-80%. If I have two, three or
> more tabs open, then the load is 100%, and I feel the slowdown of the
> system. The same happens with http://www.vecernji-list.hr, for instance.
> On the same machine I have booted WindowsXP, where I also installed
> Firefox 1.0.7, and I don't experience that problem there.
> 
 Ubuntu's firefox is very slow, this was a big mistake imho, if you
install the 1.5 with these instructions
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion
it will be a world of difference.





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