I often hear the fan on my laptop on and when i look the the processes, i see that it is firefox using 40% cpu! what could it possibly be doing, as i have only one tab open? is this something to do with extensions that i have loaded? how does one find out what extension is using cpu in firefox?
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On 11/15/2012 10:36 AM, firestomper412 wrote:
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> I often hear the fan on my laptop on and when i look the the processes,
> i see that it is firefox using 40% cpu! what could it possibly be doing,
> as i have only one tab open?
what is in that one tab? is it just a page of text…or is it a java
game, or a flash game, or a youtube video, or or or or
> is this something to do with extensions that i have loaded?
probably…but i’m not sure which (if any) extensions might be real hogs
when not actually being used…
> how does one find out what extension is using cpu in firefox?
i don’t know an easy way, but just disable each extension, one at a time
and wait a few seconds to see how your readout (of percent cpu) changes
with each…
It could be running several flash applets on the page you are viewing.
I’m sure that there are other possible causes. However, when I see firefox using high CPU, it is almost always due to flash applets.
Same experience here. But not with all sites with flash content, so badly coded flash content could be a cause too.
Have found what was causing CPU drain in Firefox. It was facebook toolbar, disabled addons one by one and found that it was that that one.
> Have found what was causing CPU drain in Firefox. It was facebook
> toolbar, disabled addons one by one and found that it was that that one.
happy you found the hog! welcome…
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