On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:46:55 -0500, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 09/15/09 11:15, Darren New wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Anybody have any idea why?
>>
>> I don't know if this is it, but I've had friends who had firefoxen that
>> work really poorly because their history and/or cache has hundreds of
>> thousands of entries in it, and firefox is just trying to update all
>> the changes back out.
> 
> 	It's a factor, but it shouldn't result in too high CPU usage. Most
> likely it's an addon that's causing the trouble.
> 
> 	If he's on Linux, then the Flash plugin is crap. It can continue 
to eat
> up CPU even if you close the tab that had the Flash application.

Yeah, Flash or Acrobat, I've had both hang up and peg the CPU.

Jim

Post a reply to this message