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Ethenielle
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Norway1006 Posts
June 21 2008 14:36 GMT
#1
This has been an issue for me for quite some time now, but I just recently got pissed enough to post a blog about it.
Sometimes my firefox eats up anything from 50% to 95% CPU power, and I have to cntrlaltdel out of it(to preserve my tabs) if I want to get anything done on my pc at all. And it's not like I need to have a shitload of tabs open, or intensive sites. It happens sometimes with just TL open, too. You guys know of any way to fix this, or is firefox just that bad?

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MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
June 21 2008 14:48 GMT
#2
often the plugins have the bugs, not the browser itself. And does FF3 still not conserve the tabs when exiting normally?
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0xDEADBEEF
Profile Joined September 2007
Germany1235 Posts
June 21 2008 14:52 GMT
#3
Memory leaks have nothing to do with the CPU. That just means that memory usage grows unusually fast over time (the longer you have it open). FF3 has fixed a lot of memleaks FF2 had and can be considered safe from that now.

Unusually high CPU usage most likely comes from the Adobe Flash plugin. Especially under Linux it's known to consume a lot of CPU power, probably because Adobe doesn't really care about the quality of the plugin on that platform.
Try deactivating it and other plugins and extensions, and watch the CPU usage then.
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
June 21 2008 14:57 GMT
#4
Speaking of the flash plugin, it wont install on my IE. I use Vista ;(. Anyone know whyyy?
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LonelyMargarita
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
1845 Posts
June 21 2008 15:05 GMT
#5
On June 21 2008 23:57 MiniRoman wrote:
Speaking of the flash plugin, it wont install on my IE. I use Vista ;(. Anyone know whyyy?


No; I have no idea why you use Vista.
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dyodyo
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Philippines578 Posts
June 21 2008 15:22 GMT
#6
Im a little browser heavy (3 windows open with around 7+ tabs each continuously open for at least 5+hours) and I don't have the problem you're encountering.

I really think, as deadbeef has said, your plugins/extensions are causing the problem. I had experience with memory leaks/browser slowdowns with the Adobe reader plugin. Now I make a conscious effort to download the PDFs Im going to read before opening it (as opposed to opening it directly inside FF)
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grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
June 21 2008 15:26 GMT
#7
I have used Firefox since forever, but ever since late 2.0 and up to the current version i have noticed that it tends to get pretty damn sluggish at times.

Currently my firefox is using 120mb, is that normal?
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Brazil1606 Posts
June 21 2008 15:33 GMT
#8
im having issues w the last ffx versions
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Belgium9950 Posts
June 21 2008 15:43 GMT
#9
Post your system specs. firefox doesnt really work that well with pc's that dont support hyperthreading (pre pentium 4 I think?) so if you have a pretty old PC that might be the cause.
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United States6233 Posts
June 21 2008 15:58 GMT
#10
On June 21 2008 23:48 MasterOfChaos wrote:
often the plugins have the bugs, not the browser itself. And does FF3 still not conserve the tabs when exiting normally?


Well, to be fair to Mozilla, there are quite a few tab managers that conserve tabs when you exit. Plus I'm pretty sure that Firefox actually conserves tabs if you toggle the right setting.
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Ethenielle
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Norway1006 Posts
June 21 2008 15:59 GMT
#11
Thanks for the help! Sucks about the plugins, the flash one is kinda useful. But I guess it might be what rage said too, since my pc is admittedly shitty as fuck. Oh well
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dyodyo
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Philippines578 Posts
June 21 2008 16:10 GMT
#12
On June 22 2008 00:26 grobo wrote:
I have used Firefox since forever, but ever since late 2.0 and up to the current version i have noticed that it tends to get pretty damn sluggish at times.

Currently my firefox is using 120mb, is that normal?

I think so. Mine is currently using 139mb with a Peak of 179mb of memory with 6 tabs/1 window open. But its not sluggish.
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JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
June 21 2008 16:35 GMT
#13
On June 22 2008 00:22 dyodyo wrote:
I really think, as deadbeef has said, your plugins/extensions are causing the problem. I had experience with memory leaks/browser slowdowns with the Adobe reader plugin. Now I make a conscious effort to download the PDFs Im going to read before opening it (as opposed to opening it directly inside FF)


don't use adobe reader for pdf files isn't it painfully slow? foxit ftw, ~1second boot up time
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Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
June 21 2008 17:16 GMT
#14
its been like this for awhile.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
June 21 2008 18:13 GMT
#15
On June 22 2008 00:43 RaGe wrote:
Post your system specs. firefox doesnt really work that well with pc's that dont support hyperthreading (pre pentium 4 I think?) so if you have a pretty old PC that might be the cause.


I get the same thing with my dual core (at least I did with FF2)
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Profile Joined June 2006
Romania1025 Posts
June 21 2008 19:15 GMT
#16
On June 22 2008 01:35 JeeJee wrote:
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On June 22 2008 00:22 dyodyo wrote:
I really think, as deadbeef has said, your plugins/extensions are causing the problem. I had experience with memory leaks/browser slowdowns with the Adobe reader plugin. Now I make a conscious effort to download the PDFs Im going to read before opening it (as opposed to opening it directly inside FF)


don't use adobe reader for pdf files isn't it painfully slow? foxit ftw, ~1second boot up time

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