Firefox and chrome chewing CPU since updates

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 16:42 +0900, Nick Bikkal wrote:
> > This is extremely frustrating.
> > 
> It seems every time there's an upgrade things get messed up inside.
> Maybe I don't understand the Linux philosophy enough. I'm not a system
> person. I use Ubuntu on my computers I enjoy trying to figure things
> out but it's very frustrating. 

Actually I've been using Ubuntu for more than 6 years and I update every
time a new package is available and I can count on the fingers of one
hand the times that this has introduced a regression.

Looks like this was the leap second thing because a second reboot (after
12am) fixed the problem.

Strange, as there have been leap seconds added to Linux systems many
times over the years and I've never seen this happen before.