Does anyone else notice Mozilla Firefox is a CPU hog?

[bX510]

Well, I usually notice this difference when i am playing games. I have an AMD athlon 64 3000+ venice and 1.5 gb of ram. I ussually play WoW and i oftenly go loook up quests. I noticed when i leave the firefox on, the gameplay will start lagging and when i check the task manager, firefox is way up there. When I close it, i resume my smooth gameplay. Is there any tweaks for this?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

just noticed that it uses a good amount of memory from task manager, but with 2gb of ram i don't feel any slowdowns..

 

[DaveSimmons]

there are several Firefox threads in the Software forum, perhaps one applies.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
there are several Firefox threads in the Software forum, perhaps one applies.

Had the same issue, except it was multiple tabs open(20) with flash ads on them. That would take enormous amounts of cpu power. Installing the Flash block add-on fixed this right up.

 

[AstroGuardian]

That's right. Firefox consumes both memory and cpu time. I have noticed it too. I upgraded to mozilla firefox 2.0 and it consumes less resource than the previous versions i guess.

 

[bX510]

Yeah, i was askig my friedn yesterday. He said it's the same.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

No it doesn't.

Are you sure you're not downloading pr0n torrent in the background.

 

[Oxaqata]

Im seeing it rack up 20-70% CPU usage just viewing this thread!

 

[oynaz]

Well, Firefox (4 tabs open), Openoffice and MSN uses 2% of my P3 1 Ghz. Perhaps you should check for malware?

 

[PowerYoga]

It's the flash ads. Thottbot and allakazam have a lot of them, which is what I'm assuming you're using to look up most of your quests.

What I usually do is refresh it and it usually lands on something not flash... and you're set!

 

[dBTelos]

Firefox doesn't use an abnormally large amount of CPU processes, but most of the time it will use 100MB+ of RAM, so I don't recommend gaming while surfing with FF.

 

[bX510]

hmm... how do i disable the falsh ads?

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: bX510
hmm... how do i disable the falsh ads?

Originally posted by: Zaitsev

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
there are several Firefox threads in the Software forum, perhaps one applies.

Had the same issue, except it was multiple tabs open(20) with flash ads on them. That would take enormous amounts of cpu power. Installing the Flash block add-on fixed this right up.

 

[Rubycon]

If the hog is hungry, get a bigger (dual core) food bin.

Adblock plus works well.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I don't have any system slowdowns due to firefox. I think it must just not like you

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Oxaqata
Im seeing it rack up 20-70% CPU usage just viewing this thread!

Viewing this thread FF2 is using 0-3% CPU, about the same as IE7.

 

[Cheex]

No slowdowns really on my end.
Firefox doesn't use more than 2% of my CPU while viewing here.
It does however use about 108MB of my RAM.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
If the hog is hungry, get a bigger (dual core) food bin.

Adblock plus works well.

No, if the hog is hungry, into the shredder it goes. You don't feed things, you let them starve and then you kill it.