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

[Roger Haxton]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 09:37, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Jan Moren wrote:
> > On my not-very-fast laptop, with the default Firefox in Breezy, I now
> > have 25 tabs open, to various websites. After they all finished loading,
> > Firefox takes no CPU at all.
>
> I have noticed that whenever ubuntu Firefox is "trying" to get some
> data, it sucks up 100% of the CPU.  I don't notice the same behavior
> under Windows.  The implication of that behavior is that instead of
> waiting on a socket, it's sitting there doing some kind of a busy wait
> loop.  It would be interesting to see if the same behavior occurs with
> other applications and if it does, that would imply the problem is
> further down in a library or kernel subsystem.
>
> The only other time I've noticed significant resource consumption is one
> flash is in operation.  Sometimes I have pages with flash that just
> consume all the CPU available and don't go away until I kill that tab.
>
> ---eric

I have the same problem myself.  Pages with a lot of flash on them can consume 
100% of the CPU.  However, I had the same issue on SuSE10 with Firefox.
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