Firefox and CPU utilization

[racolvin]

Lately I've noticed my CPU temperatures being higher than I recal them being in the past. I've played around with things inside the case, thinking it might be airflow or a fan going bad, etc and no joy - the hardware is performing perfectly.

Then one day I noticed that after I had shut down all my apps (just before starting a game to play) that my temperatures dropped! Why ...

Turns out that Firefox sucks uplike 50% of my CPU utilization! It was making my poor CPU work so hard had displaying webpages that it was heating things up. Just for grins I stop Firefox and watch the temperatures drop. Wash, rinse, repeat. Sure enough, its Firefox that makes my machine effectively "run in place" and eats of 49-50% CPU doing it, meaning heat generation.

As an experiment, I shut down Firefox and crank up IE. I never looked at CPU Utilizatio under IE before, so I was curious ..

Hardly a heartbeat - 1%. My temps stayed lower and everything seemed nice and happy.

Does anyone else have this problem or notice these symptoms? I'm now running the latest (1.0.4) of Firefox and its still doing it. Surely its not just me ...

R

 

[n0cmonkey]

It's just you.

Backup your bookmarks, uninstall firefox, make sure your profile is gone, and reinstall.

If that doesn't work, get better cooling so it doesn't matter if you're getting 100% out of your processor or wasting time at 50% utilization.

 

[Bar81]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It's just you.

 

[VicodiN]

Originally posted by: Bar81

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It's just you.

 

[jkoon]

Were you perhaps displaying a webpage in firefox that had some type of flash animation/movie playing in the background? That will eat up a lot of cpu.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: VicodiN

Originally posted by: Bar81

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It's just you.

 

[Aenslead]

Originally posted by: jkoon
Were you perhaps displaying a webpage in firefox that had some type of flash animation/movie playing in the background? That will eat up a lot of cpu.

Yes. Flash is very CPU intensive. Its so intensive, that Anand used one flash-filled page as a reference for his Multi-threaded benchmarks.

That is a very valid reason.

 

[Aenslead]

Then again, it might just be you.

 

[Appledrop]

use the power of IE my friend.

[half flaimbait]Just LOOK at how insecure firefox is, and how M$ >*, and how much faster IE is![/half flaimbait]

 

[Nithin]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: VicodiN

Originally posted by: Bar81

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It's just you.

 

[beatle]

It's NOT just you. It's happened to me before. Deleting my profile and recreating it fixed it, however.

 

[birdpup]

This cpu utilization problem also happens to me. I have not taken the time to troubleshoot it so I have no idea what causes it or how to fix it but it is a real problem. With each new version, I keep hoping it has gone away.

 

[kmmatney]

I had a similar problem. Also, had a problem with Firefox taking up loads of memory. I wnet back to using IE> All this happened a while back, though. I haven't tried the latest versions.