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kierthos ([personal profile] kierthos) wrote2009-07-08 08:12 am
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what the shit?

For some reason, Firefox 3.5, when left unattended, is slowly eating up CPU cycles. It also doesn't want to seem to let me switch between tabs either. Well, that part was fixed by relaunching Firefox. But it still starts hogging CPU cycles if I don't close out Firefox before going to bed or going to work....

Fucking thing.
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[identity profile] delwin.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
odds are a resource leak somewhere. Report the bug along with your system specs and it should be fixed in the next update.

[identity profile] ed-dirt.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
mine does the same thing.

[identity profile] egearman.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Either an add-on or two has a resource leak, or the web page(s) you are visiting do not have the proper closures for their javascript (i.e. not deallocating resources properly/losing track of what they have).

[identity profile] kierthos.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm using less addons now then I ever was before, so I sort of doubt that's it.

As for the web-pages.... the WoW forums and LJ were the only ones open when I went to bed, and when I got up, Firefox was hogging 30+ percent of the CPU.

[identity profile] gothiqroze.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine's doing it, too. Bleah.

[identity profile] jdack.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Every version of FireFox I've ever used since the first beta has had memory leaks and a hunger for spare CPU cycles.

If you're not addon/extension crazy I'd suggest trying out Chrome or Safari.
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