mozilla being a pig

[Net Llama!]

Anyone else still using Mozilla (not firefox)?  Old habits die hard, and 
my wife insists on using Mozilla even though firefox is installed. 
Unfortunately, her mozilla, when left running for a few days, starts to 
bring the system to its knees.  Simply moving the mouse cursor causes 
cpu usage to spike, window redraw takes seconds, occasionally the mouse 
will even freeze in place for a second at a time.  Its just horrible. 
What makes no sense to me is that looking at the mozilla-bin process, 
its not using that much memory, and if the system is left 'idle' CPU 
usage isn't even high.  As soon as mozilla is killed, performance 
immediately returns to normal.

I thought it might be extensions, however she's only using adblock, and 
its the same version of adblock as i use in firefox (which doesn't 
exhibit this problem).

Anyone else seen this problem, or have any troubleshooting ideas?


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