And its not even doing anything, I just opened it, and MBP get's hotter and hotter. Anyone else have a problem with Firefox. I get this sometimes with Chrome, but not as much. And that's usually doing something, like playing YouTube. This is doing nothing...
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Firefox 42% CPU?
- Thread starter Peter Franks
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This this is well known problem with third party browsers on OS X when the program browser is left open all the time. That's what we call a memory leak. So just close the program before sleeping or after some time.
Yuh thanks, I'd only just opened it, I think. Hard to use Safari when you're still running 10.6.8. Nobody supports that version anymore. That's my problem. Mind you. Been a strange day today. The infamous iOS 9 has saved an email draft in 'drafts' in Chinese letters or they may be Japanese. Never had or seen that in all my iPhone years. Makes no sense at all
I used Firefox the other day and it brought my cpu temp up to 72*C and drained my battery very quickly. Needless to say I removed Firefox.
FF and Chrome always bring the fan up to boiling point, and Safari never did when on YouTube. Don't know why it can't be sorted.