

Without site restrictions and more tabs, frequent excursion to 100% and 300K+. When I browse w/o these sorts of pages, and keep it down to 2 windows with 4 or 5 tabs each, even then FF excurses to 10-15% CPU and 250K+ mem use. These usually seem to be sites heavy on data flow, but not always.

Hope only for some way to dodge the charging CPU beast.Ĭlues I've noticed, for what they're worth:Ĭlosing certain webpages (Scottrade, iGoogle) does often help. abandon all hope of finding what you might be doing "wrong", all ye who enter here. I say "workaround" because clearly there have been so many users with so many different PC configurations and usage patterns that it cannot be said that the CPU problem is due to someone with a "bad setting" or a "bad website." I.e. I have looked at posts going back 4 years (to FF 1.0) and this CPU problem is long-standing. In the remote hope my "two bits" will pull some knowing soul out of the woodwork: Realplayer browser record plugin (incompatible with ff3)ĭrag and drop zone (incompatible with ff3) Greasemonkey (yes, I still have the problem when I disable this) Once the page is loaded all is fine, but every page will do this, even pages that have not changed since I last visited them. isk-usage/ which have only reduced the amount of time - that is, now my cpu will max out for only a few seconds, but this still seems way too excessive. I followed some of the steps on this site. After installing SP3 on windows xp i noticed minute long pauses after opening a page, which I found out was because cpu was at 100% for that length of time.
