Firefox 3.0 woes

[Paolo]

John K Masters wrote:
> Once logged in FF3 uses approx 66%
> CPU for the first 6-7 minutes making the system totally unresponsive.
> Then at various intervals it does the same, even when I am not surfing
> but just have it open in another workspace. This is extremely annoying.

Well, I am getting occasional periods of high CPU use and disk activity (not 
swap disk) which, as you say, makes the whole system unresponsive.

I guess it does happen when Firefox is open (it usually is), but I had not 
narrowed it down to that.

Paolo