what on earth is firefox up to?

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/30/2012 07:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Every time I start firefox after recent updates, top
> shows it periodically taking up to 50% of the CPU
> even if I'm just looking at a simple page of plain
> html (no scripts, not even any images) on my local
> web server.

I'm running the latest Firefox on F16, and see the same thing.  In fact, 
unless my memory's wrong, every time I had one of those weird crashes I 
mentioned recently Firefox was loading a page.  And, if it matters, it 
was always on the visible workspace.