On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:47:03AM -0500, christopher marlow wrote: > I have installed F20 Mate for the first time and have been using it > for 2 or 3 days now, and when opening Firefox the fan picks up speed > and gets faster, slower, faster, slow. But it seems like when I close > FF the fan goes back to a normal lower speed? Why is that? Is this > normal? That sounds like it is doing the right thing. When the CPU is doing intensive things (opening Firefox counts), it produces a lot of heat, and the fan automatically spins up to get rid of it. When the workload decreases, so does the waste heat, and therefore, no fan. -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Tepid change for the somewhat better!" -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org