firefox problem

[dragon]

Firefox seems to be having a "lets hog lots of cpu resources" moment on my mac. infact it was almost maxing a cpu core .

running firefox 2.0.0.5 on osx on a macbook

All I had was Cableforum open, have had to restart it twice so far because of this.

Its not the first time its done it either, pc has been known to do it ocassionly but the OSX version seems far more prone to doing it.

Any ideas how to discipline the naughty little fox.

[Graham M]

It could possibly be a bug to do with Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) which these vB forums use a lot of, shouldnt really be eating resources client side though as all the system has to do is a few Javascript calls. Weird!

Is there no update for the Mac version yet, us Windows users are on 2.0.0.6 ?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Zeph

It could possibly be a bug to do with Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) which these vB forums use a lot of, shouldnt really be eating resources client side though as all the system has to do is a few Javascript calls. Weird!

Is there no update for the Mac version yet, us Windows users are on 2.0.0.6 ?

Just updated a moment ago its 2.0.0.6 now

Seemed it had stalled on picking up the update its been booted into windows most of last week since i was away and my dialup modem doesn't work on osx

[Pia]

It's quite a known problem that, some people say it's to do with flash and say to disable it using the flashblock extension.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...age=15&start=0

Try this How to Fix the Firefox Memory Leak

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Pia

It's quite a known problem that, some people say it's to do with flash and say to disable it using the flashblock extension.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...age=15&start=0

Try this How to Fix the Firefox Memory Leak

Would the memory usage trick sort it?

Not worried about the ram usage I got 2gb of ram, its when it decides to hog an entire cpu core for some stupid reason.

EDIT noticed my flash player plugin on osx is several builds out of date mines

Shockwave Flash

File name: Flash Player.plugin
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r20

latest is

Version: 9,0,47,0

So i'm going to try installing the latest one.

[Pia]

Well i had the same problem on my desktop it was hogging the resources to the point where everything crashed, so although you have enough ram for it not to affect it too much you still could try the memory leak tips because that's what sorted it for me.
You can see how common it is just by searching firefox cpu in google!

You may be thinking that you have done all the things to stop this nasty habit of Firefox. But have you tried this? I’ve done this is Firefox 2.0.0.3 but this will work with all the other versions of Firefox. Ok! here’s the trick.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to get the Firefox expert configuration page.
2. Type browser.cache.disk.capacity in the Filter text box.
3. Modify the value to 16384
4. Restart Firefox and there you go!

After doing this, CPU usage for Firefox should stay under 10%

http://cybercapital.org/index.php/20...ur-cpu-cycles/

[altis]

I'm not sure if it works on the Mac but you could try the NoScript extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

This lets you control on a site-by-site basis whether scripts are allowed to run.

I disable all scripts from this site and it loads an awful lot faster. It's made an even bigger difference to eBay too. Recommended!