Firefox eats all my processor power
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jun 18 13:42:52 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:31 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried that page and my procesor goes to 47%, but when i tried
> the same on Opera, goes justo to 7%, so give Opera a try, i really
> dont know why Opera uses less micro power on almost all kind of pages.
>
> regards,
>
> Guillermo.
>
>
> On 6/17/06, Nigel J. Terry <nigel at nigelterry.net> wrote:
> Motor wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:12:48 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Type "about:" as the URL and if the screen mentions anything about
> > > MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO, then Firefox is not picking up your export or it has
> > > gone.
> > >
> > > export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 should be put in your local/global profile,
> > >
> > > you should not modify the firefox script as that get's upgraded.
> > >
> > Thanks... but it looks like Pango use was definitely disabled. (the env
> > var is set in ~/.bashrc). It still feels slower than before the recent
> > firefox update though.
> >
> > I'm biting my tongue a bit, because FC5 has been a complete mess from my
> >
> > point of view. Broken sound card, GTK/GNOME performance plummeting with
> > the introduction of Cairo, Evolution still crashing regularly when I quit
> > while using the "Empty trash folders on exit" option. I've been an RH user
> >
> > since 1999, but I'm giving serious consideration to switching to another
> > desktop and another distro.
> >
> > Anyway... thanks for the advice.
> >
> >
> I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It
> only happens with some pages, try:
>
> http://free.grisoft.com
>
> When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up
> >90% of my processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO
> and it makes no difference
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Nigel
>
That is really strange. When google is loaded 7% of the cpu is used, but when the site above is loaded 78% of the cpu is used
by firefox. Very strange.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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