Firefox 80% resource

[phas3]

okay so I'm looking at my istat and it says firefox is running 85% of my cpu why is that?

 

[Gray-Wolf]

What plugins do you have in use with it?

Also, restart your computer, reopen firefox and check again.

 

[phas3]

i looked into my add on in firefox and it lists


divx
flip4mac
netscape navigator
java embedded plugin
quicktime
shockwave


will restart now

 

[phas3]

okay its back to less than 30% and fluctuates to 1% but i dont get how it went up that high in the first place it was at a constant 80+%

 

[spinnerlys]

Maybe it was some Flash fracking around. This can be sometimes highly CPU intensive, depending what CPU you have.

 

[jknudsen]

use flashblock to help performance

Try using the extension flashblock to stop the flash applications from eating your system up.

 

[phas3]

defnitely something wrong with firefox here, since the first incindent i've been monitoring firefox. I like to tab my windows and just a few minutes ago i had 8 running looking at my smc fan control my temps went up to 70c fan was runnin at 3500rpm so i checked my activity window and firefox was at 101% resources...anyone have a clue?

 

[Eidorian]

You should open one tab at a time and monitor CPU usage. You should be able to narrow down the site.

It's Flash, it's always Flash.

 

[phas3]

maybe i should just stick to safari

 

[Eidorian]

maybe i should just stick to safari

Give it a try and see what the CPU usage is.