Mozilla CPU usage

[Joep L. Blom]

On 20/01/11 00:26, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> 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.
>
That's the reason I switched to VMware PLayer. Much less use of 
resources: I run a rather heavy Windows application (with lots of 
graphic and sound) and it use less than 50 % CPU (4-core AMD Phenom II 4 
GB mem). Moreover Ubuntu (or better; Linux) does quite a good job of 
load balancing (try that on the latest Windows!!).
Joep