Safari, Firefox, Opera all taking up 130% of my cpu?

[impulse462]

Is there a reason that whenever I have more than 5 tabs open in any one of the aforementioned browsers, the browser starts to take anywhere between 90 and 130% of my cpu?

I understand that flash is poorly optimized for os x, but this is getting ridiculous, my cpu temperature is hitting 61C just by having a 6-7 tabs open.

Keep in mind that this happens only sometimes, but more often than not. At one point I had 15 tabs open and safari was only taking around 25% of my cpu.


Anyone got any fixes?

 

[r.j.s]

Do any of those tabs contain Flash? If so, that's your problem.

 

[impulse462]

Do any of those tabs contain Flash? If so, that's your problem.

Only one of them contained flash, and it wasn't a streaming video such as on youtube or etc. it was a flash ad. Is that was taking up all my cpu?

...thats pretty ridiculous

 

[r.j.s]

That was probably it, Flash sucks, and there is nothing that can be done about it until Adobe fixes the problem.

 

[Steve-M]

I don't think flash is the problem. I can watch youtube video's and safari runs 40-50%