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04-16-2005, 10:07 PM
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FF Causing High CPU Usage
Hmmm..
For some reason, Firefox is laggin a whole bunch lately. It never used to do this. Before it would usually show up as 11,000 mem usage in task manager and now its like 50,000 (71,000 right now) I check the spu usage chart, and when im not doing anything its anywhere between 4-7%. When I scroll down a page its 40-70%. This is getting ridiculous. And I just updated to Firefox 1.0.2 (however this has been going on longer. I went and scanned my computer with Housecall to see if there were any viruses, and there were, but it was some irrelevant java **** that alwasy seems to pop up when I do a virus check (even though I deleted the files).
So what is it? Too many extensions? Is it the upgrade to 1.0.1? Should I go back to 1.0? Should I just reinstall? wtf is going on!
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04-16-2005, 10:10 PM
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i personally would just reinstall if that doesnt fix it down grade to 1.0
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04-16-2005, 11:41 PM
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Doesn't sound like extensions or themes to me. Seems like you have some maliciousware going on. Maybe some adware or spyware.
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04-16-2005, 11:42 PM
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mine's runnin at 46,000 right now....hmm, weird.
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04-16-2005, 11:47 PM
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Mine is running at 82,316
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04-17-2005, 12:11 AM
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ok i posted at cybertechhelp and they said to go out and get flashblock. I installed it and now im running 36,000, but it still kinda lags.
still pretty good from 80,000 to 20,000-40,000
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04-17-2005, 12:25 AM
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mines at 17,948 I think NG's solution would be the bst just because its from him and he's usually right lol
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04-17-2005, 10:25 AM
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well no more lag after a reboot of teh box.
get flashblock, it works.
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04-18-2005, 07:30 PM
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hmm okay so after a few days of this i think ive figured it out
okay, i boot up, firefox starts and doesnt lag. great. this lasts for a while and i start laggin again. what do i do? simply log off and on again. it only takes a few seconds and it seems to fix and lag issues
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04-18-2005, 08:14 PM
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i think its causing your system idel process to go haywire after a while when it starts to lag bring up your task mannager and it should be under processes check and see if its using crazy mem and processor power
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04-18-2005, 09:11 PM
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yea firefox is a ramhog. when i first boot it up it already takes up like 15 megs of ram. right now ive left it open for about 2 hours and its usin nearly 60 megs. my cpu usage doesnt go up that high when scrolling tho, only like 20%
the other day i left my computer on overnight with fiefox, photoshop and illustrator all running and when i went on the next day it said i had ran out of virtutal memory. i checked in task manager and firefox was using a ton of ram
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04-18-2005, 09:19 PM
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the system idle process or firefox? (referring to nogod)
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04-18-2005, 11:56 PM
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both
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04-20-2005, 09:11 AM
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sounds odd when u scroll just for curiosity sake when was the last time u updated you graphics card drivers, id update them
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04-20-2005, 04:10 PM
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my graphics card? its just fine although the drivers have been around since like last june/july. might update dem...
system idle is always 16k
firefox 20,000 in beginning then up to 40,000 and more.
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05-04-2005, 05:34 PM
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Ugh this logoff/logon crap isn't doing the trick anymore...
I'm starting to think my scratch disk for FF is getting full so I may end up having to get rid of a lot more than I thought...
Well I've made a couple backup CD's... time to make more.
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05-05-2005, 05:22 PM
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good luck
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05-06-2005, 06:16 PM
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ok we're at 10 megs free now and it still lags.
....i dont understand
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05-07-2005, 08:14 PM
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how old is your hardware?
processors and physical pieces do wear out... just a thought 
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05-08-2005, 07:19 AM
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try reinstalling ff or switch to mozilla
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