Macbook users: Does FireFox make your system HOT?

[wako]

Are you sure that you dont somehow have it running under Rosetta?

Anyway to figure out if my app is running in Rosetta and stop it?

 

[vv-tim]

Anyway to figure out if my app is running in Rosetta and stop it?

Check your Activity Monitort. It'll say "PowerPC" in a column on the right.

New versions of Firefox should be universal binaries, but I know that the current (release) version of Thunderbird is still PPC (you can get the universal binary from their betas).

And like the one guy has tried to tell everyone that's going nuts about how much Firefox sucks... IT IS THE FLASH PLUG-IN!!!!

I put in Flashblock and haven't had a hang since (or high cpu usage).

Also... since Camino is BASED ON GECKO (Mozilla's rendering engine) you're going to have the same problems (mostly) that you have with Firefox in Camino.


The one notable problem I have with Firefox in OS X is that when you do a lot of AJAX/Javascript with scroll bars it makes the scroll bars disappear...

 

[netdog]

I am running off the UB install, and I am having the problem. FF also blows up from time to time.

 

[gloss]

Netdog, try out Opera 9. It's taken a bit of adjusting, but it's really solid. Seems to run a bit cooler, too, although that may be me looking for what I'd like to see.

 

[JackSYi]

Firefox kept crashing on me so I switched to Safari. To my dismay, Safari crashes every so often, but not like Firefox. Plus, I like how Safari is so integrated into Mac OS X.

 

[Macfanatic867]

On my PB 12 in 867mhz with Firefox 1.5.0.4 installed when I hold down the mouse button the Cpu % usage still goes up to 99%. If this was fixed two months ago why does it still occur? BTW, since I installed Flashblock it idles at 3% instead of 17-25%, huge difference.

 

[bousozoku]

On my PB 12 in 867mhz with Firefox 1.5.0.4 installed when I hold down the mouse button the Cpu % usage still goes up to 99%. If this was fixed two months ago why does it still occur? BTW, since I installed Flashblock it idles at 3% instead of 17-25%, huge difference.

Are you using an external mouse with a poor mouse driver?

I just tested again with both the PowerBok 1.33 GHz trackpad and my Logitech Trackman Marble and they both get the same results. The system barely notices that Firefox is there. Thunderbird reacts the same way.

 

[JAT]

Haven't compared heat, but overall my wife's MB is not too hot and FF is probably the most used app. FF does crash on occasion, though. I think she had to reboot this morning to get FF working again, either that or she switched to Safari.

 

[benthewraith]

Haven't compared heat, but overall my wife's MB is not too hot and FF is probably the most used app. FF does crash on occasion, though. I think she had to reboot this morning to get FF working again, either that or she switched to Safari.

Is the Firefox thing in any way linked to the memory leak currently in that program? They say they resolved it, but I beg to differ. Even on my Dell Inspiron 600m, Firefox stole RAM.

 

[vv-tim]

Is the Firefox thing in any way linked to the memory leak currently in that program? They say they resolved it, but I beg to differ. Even on my Dell Inspiron 600m, Firefox stole RAM.

I've never had a problem with Firefox in Windows. My solid browser I've ever used (and extremely fast when compared to IE when rendering pages w/ Javascript effects).

 

[JAT]

I've never checked memory issues, Mac or Win. My least-installed-RAM computer is now 768MB, and that is from 2001. Hasn't been an issue so I haven't looked into it.

 

[Macfanatic867]

Nope. I am using the built-in trackpad button on my PB, to clarify.

 

[Clueponic]

Well I downloaded Firefox today, after getting it yesterday, and the system is INCREDIBILY HOT when I use it.

When I use Safari, according to CoreDuoTemp, CPU Usage is at ~7% and at 53 centigrade.

When i use Firefox CPU Usage is always more than 45% even if Im not doing anything and the Temperature is 65+ centigrade.

Anyone else getting these type of problems?

Hey guys

I was trawling through another forum and they were pointing at the CPU usage issue's perpetrator as Windows File Sharing. Apparently turning file sharing off will fix the CPU usage problem, particularly if you're experiencing none of your processes in Activity Monitor owning up to using that much CPU time.

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookpro/topic4071.html for more information

By the way, I'm using a MacBook 2.0 Intel Core Duo with 1 Gb RAM and 60Gb HD (wish I'd gone a bigger hard disk)

Cheers