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usurp
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2004-08-23, 02:29

I love FireFox but the past few days things got really weird.
FireFox was hogging up as much as 50% of my cpu at time. and would average around 20 to 30%. (i used terminal and the "top" command to get that).

My G4 733mhz at home was starting to feel really sluggish and all i was doing was browsing.

So i just ditched firefox and started using mozilla. now mozilla is currently using around 15 to 20% of my cpu (i still find this too much) but the sluggishness is gone. i can have a bunch of tabs open and its not a problem.

has anyone had this issue with firefox? i was using 0.9.3.
i find mozilla better in many ways (the remember password works better here) but i miss my search engines bar which i had in firefox.. oh and no bug me not with mozilla

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Brad
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2004-08-23, 07:31

Cripes, man. 20% idling? Or is that on a page with animations or Flash?

It sounds like other problems are abound. Either that or Mozilla/Firefox has really gone down the crapper since I last used it. Do you have any extensions installed? I'd give Firefox another try with a clean install, wiping out your old profile and app.

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2004-08-23, 09:50

I'll guess that's on a page with flash. With Firefox I'm getting around 2.5-3% CPU on AN pages, with about 10-30% on a page with flash.
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usurp
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2004-08-23, 14:03

No Flash, No animation, just around 4 tabs. and 20% was mozilla, firefox averages higher and up to 50%.

now with 4 tabs open, gmail, bidpay, ebay and applenova.. mozilla is hitting 16%

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2004-08-23, 16:40

Yes Firefox on my PC has been doing that for a while. It will sit there and just eat cycles for no particular reason. Right now I'm testing Opera and it's not bad but surely not worth $40. I also have cookie issues with Firefox where I continually have to keep logging into to some sites.

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Koodari
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2004-08-23, 18:40

I switched to Firefox at 0.91, but only because Mozilla crashed time to time (not frequently - it was pretty good). I tried some extensions and that took down the whole Firefox. I did a clean reinstall, destroyed Firefox stuff from my Library etc. Since then, no updating, no extensions, no crashes. My Firefox works like it should. I'll try extensions again at 1.0. I understand the problem was that extension protocol was finalized between 0.8 and 0.9 and I accidentally tried a 0.8 extension. (still shouldn't permanently screw up the browser though...)
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usurp
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2004-08-24, 00:19

well i only had BugMeNot installed as an extension. i will do a clean install of firefox on the next update most probably 0.9.4
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Ebby
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2004-08-24, 23:15

Try loading this page in safari.

Crippled my network and brought a Dual G5 2Ghz to it's knees.

Poor G5.
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usurp
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2004-08-25, 00:11

wow what the hell is that!
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2004-08-25, 00:27

I found it after a stray google search.
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Xaqtly
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2004-08-25, 18:49

I just tried that page in Safari on a 2 GHz G5, and it didn't even come close to bringing the network, Safari or the G5 to its knees. I tried it in FireFox too, same thing - no problem. So then I opened the page in both Safari and Firefox at the same time, and they're both open right now as I'm typing this. It slowed Safari down a little bit, but hardly at all. It didn't seem to affect Firefox at all. Both of them are still perfectly responsive. Just FYI.
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2004-08-25, 20:25

I tried it with my rev.a 12" PB using Camino and it loaded in like 15 seconds.
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usurp
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2004-08-26, 14:00

that didnt last... am back to firefox. i cant live without having the search bar in the browser.
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DMBand0026
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2004-08-26, 14:13

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ebby
Try loading this page in safari.

Crippled my network and brought a Dual G5 2Ghz to it's knees.

Poor G5.
Three words: W, T, F?




I'll never understand the Chinese
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onlyafterdark
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2004-08-26, 16:03

Update for Camino came out today for all those who might be interested.
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2004-08-26, 16:26

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Originally Posted by DMBand0026
Three words: W, T, F?




I'll never understand the Chinese
Going to that site with Pith Helmet only allowing one animation cycle per gif is pretty funny. It's like the smilies see you looking and stop . It's been a long day at work....
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usurp
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2004-08-26, 17:25

camino here i come!!
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