Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

[Hugh Caley]

I wouldn't presume to tell Alan Cox what to do, either, and I don't 
think I did.  Apologies if it came across that way.

Hugh

> Message: 10 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:32:41 -0700 From: Craig White 
> <craigwhite at azapple.com> Subject: Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can 
> anything be done about this? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, 
> and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com> Message-ID: 
> <1239737561.13027.828.camel at lin-workstation.azapple.com> Content-Type: 
> text/plain On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:58 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
>> > Guess I'll just go look at Youtube with my javascript DOM/SVG viewer and 
>> > ... wait  ;) 
>> > 
>> > Personally, I think if Alan Cox contacted the head Linux programmer at 
>> > Adobe that would be helpful.
>> > 
>> > I also think you guys (we) are winning the Open Source versus 
>> > proprietary war, slowly but surely.  At the moment, that doesn't make my 
>> > Linux desktop experience suck much less.
>>     
> ----
> as a counterpoint but probably unhelpful is my opinion that...
>
> - every time I go to youtube.com, the stuff works fine.
>
> - I no longer get the race conditions FF 3.07/Fedora 10 but when I had
> problems with FF, they always seemed to be related to AdobeReader plugin
> in FF which I just simply removed and my problems went away. PDF files
> downloaded and AdobeReader opened in its own memory space instead of
> within Firefox.
>
> - I'm using KDE 4.x on Fedora 10 and I don't think the Linux desktop
> experience sucks at all.
>
> - I don't tell Alan Cox what to do about anything and I wouldn't expect
> him to listen to me if I did.
>
> Craig

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