what on earth is firefox up to?

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/01/2012 10:17 AM, 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.
>
> This is ff 13.0.1 on x86_64 fedora 17.
>
> Any clues? Anyone see anything similar?

Not seeing this on F16 i686....

Will it happen if the firefox window doesn't have focus?  Or, does it need to have
focus and you're actually doing something?

It you don't have focus and it periodically goes to 50% usage, you can try "strace -p
NNN" where NNN is the PID see what goes one.

Also, have you tried starting in "safe mode" to see if it happens?


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