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Firefox 2.0 hitting CPU?

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Just a question I am putting out there - has anyone else noticed that after upgrading to Firefox 2.0, it is consuming a lot of CPU power?  I am noticing fairly routine system freezing and it is bugging the hell out of me.

Update: Before posting, I did check for the known flash issues.  However, I didn't uninstall all extensions.  That is done now, but still no joy.  Will try uninstall the product and start from scratch.

Posted by Paul Mooney On 13/11/2006 | Digg This |

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1 - I'm running on OS 10.4 and FF2 and I have the same problem. It was the del.icio.us bookmarks extension. It's a shame, that's my favorite plugin by far. I never used del.icio.us until I found this extension.

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Posted by amodal1 At 02:40:14 On 24/03/2007 | - Website - |


2 - i do not have this issue with ff 2 but i have not upgraded: i made a "clean" install an after that i imported by bookmarks and re-installed extensions etc. FF is not famous for upgrading nicely

Posted by Giuseppe Grasso At 05:11:59 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


3 - No problems here. But I did have Firefox behaving the way you are describing a while ago. Turned out, it was one of the plug-ins. May the same is true in your case. Try disabling some plug-ins to track down the the problem.

Posted by Miha Vitorovic At 06:53:55 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


4 - Why not come over to the dark side and give OPERA a try!!!

www.opera.com

Never had a problem with it and it this is the fastest browser in the work!!!

Posted by Patrick Niland At 19:37:59 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


5 - If possible you should check if this is caused by Adobe Flash. Flash is well known for driving CPU to 100% especially if you do not use Internet Explorer.

Posted by Henning Heinz At 13:20:42 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


6 - Also no problems...but also a "German" installation with some plugins...

Posted by Michael At 12:03:13 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


7 - I noticed it after FF 2.0 upgrade as well.

I disabled all the extensions as a starting point - and it disappeared. I've started adding them back in and so far haven't hit the one(s?) that was causing that issue..I've been too busy to finish figuring out it which extension but it was definitely an extension for me..

P.S. PDF's can take awhile to load and drive up the cpu..but I've found I get control back eventually.

Posted by Stephen Hood At 21:23:54 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


8 - I'd echo the other comments. If FF plays up, it's inevitably a rogue plug-in I find. I have FF2, and all is well (I did a clean install also -- the upgrade didn't work).

Posted by Ben Poole At 11:14:37 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |


9 - I have upgraded and don't have that issue, on 3 systems right now (German edition, that came out some days ago)

Posted by Jens At 06:20:25 On 14/11/2006 | - Website - |