On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:32 -0800, Nataraj wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:08 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Nataraj <incoming-fedora-list@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Does anyone else see unreasonable usage of CPU resources from Firefox? > > > > Do you have flash installed? Some sites that have embedded flash > > video or animations that start on their own will cause my firefox to > > chew cpu. > > > > -jef > > > > I think there are a lot of websites with flash content. I don't know > weather this problem with flash exists under windows or not, but it > certainly would contribute to giving users the perception that firefox > is slow under linux. > > I would like to be able to leave a web browser window open and then go > off and type an email message and perhaps go off and respond to another > issue when a user calls me, without having to exit from my web browser > because it's chewing up all my CPU so I can't do anything else. Use FlashBlock and/or NoScript to block Flash from running except when you want to see it. However I also get occasional cpu-sucking from FF, even though I have both the above add-ons installed. There seems to be a correlation with Java, but I haven't looked at it closely. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
