Mozilla CPU usage

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.10. The 2.0.0.24 version of Thunderbird
> never appeared up when I ran "top -S". Version 3 CPU usage is always above
> 39% and sometimes up to 65%. As far as I know, Thunderbird isn't doing
> anything except checking for new messages every 5 minutes.
>
> Does anybody else see this? I have a laptop an that is quite a hit on the
> battery.
>
I don't use TB very often, but I see this a lot with Chrome, Firefox
and Seamonkey.  LO (and OOo) also tend to chew up the CPU evrey so
often, but the worst offender I've seen is VirtualBox - it frequently
eats 1-2 CPUs when doing things on top of running on the CPUs that are
"inside" the VM.