why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 23/03/2008, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   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.

Do you have the adobe acrobat reader installed? I saw something
similar to what you describe when i installed that. Removing it again
fixed it.