why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
machine in terms of response.

  "top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly
chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more).  is this
normal?  is this what others are seeing?  because if firefox 3 turns
out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to
dump firefox for good.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day
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