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gumbyx84

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Hey all. I'm a long time FF user, but have noticed that 3.6 (betas and RC) are bit "fatter" then previous builds. While I know some of it is due to 3rd party plug-ins (Im looking at you Adobe), sometimes I can't figure out why my CPUs run up to 100% randomly.

I have moved from extensions to greasemonkey scripts (started this when 3.5 came out) and while it helps, I still run into problems. The major one would be that I can't scroll smoothly. It take 1-3 seconds from a button press to actual scrolling. Its starting to get on my nerves, so I thought I'd ask if anyone here knows of ways to "lessen" the resource hogging nature of Firefox.

Thanks to anyone who can help me out.
 
Hey all. I'm a long time FF user, but have noticed that 3.6 (betas and RC) are bit "fatter" then previous builds. While I know some of it is due to 3rd party plug-ins (Im looking at you Adobe), sometimes I can't figure out why my CPUs run up to 100% randomly.

It's a feature, not a bug. really when you think about it an idle CPU is a waste. So what they do is wait untill it looks like it is idling and then put it to use pre-rendering a page you might want to look at. Then if you click the link it is right here with zero wait time. It you don't then nothing wasted.
 
Doesn't feel like a "feature" to me, especially when I can't scroll through the page I'm currently trying to read.
 
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