<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sat, 2006-25-03 at 19:59 -0500, Ben Novack wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Secondly, and probably more importantly - Firefox's CPU usage spikes up to 100% every time I load a page, making everything jerk to a halt for a split-second. It spikes the same way whenever I load a new item Google Reader. (For those unfamiliar, it's an AJAX-based RSS aggregator, so it's not just a matter of when full pages load.) Is anyone else running into this? Epiphany's plenty fast on the same Dapper system, and FF1.5 on my much slower Mac laptop doesn't run into the same kind of slowdown. </BLOCKQUOTE> Same problem over here on Breezy. That being said, Firefox spiked to 100% for a few seconds under Windows as well. I suspect just generally crappy architecture. Since I don't use IE (even under Windows), however, I'm pretty much stuck with Firefox for now as the alternatives strike me as far worse. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>