what on earth is firefox up to?

[JD]

On 06/30/2012 08:17 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.
>
> This is ff 13.0.1 on x86_64 fedora 17.
>
> Any clues? Anyone see anything similar?
50% !!!???
Huh.... consider yourself LUCKY!
On my old unicore amd64 (3.7GHz "equivalent :) :) /smirk/)
it escalates  sometimes to 95% of cpu.