firefox-pig (?)B

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:36 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> According to top, firefox-bin is eating 75% cpu and 12% mem. I have just
> one firefox window open, on Gmail, which is about the only thing I use
> Firefox for. (I would have got rid of it altogether if Gmail would play
> ball with Konqueror.)
> 
> Any idea what can cause this? I checked that there are no other firefox
> processes doing undisclosed things somewhere...
> OTOH, maybe I don't really understand the output of top. The 75% CPU
> means that (1) the cpu is working at 75% of its full capabilities, or just
> that (2) 75% of its load is caused by firefox, even if that load is a
> small fraction of its full capabilities?
> 
> Anyway, I've been noticing a small but unusual general slowness, which
> is why I checked top.
> 
> Version is 2.0.0.8. The processor is P4, 512M RAM.

My understanding is that firefox release 3 (in beta) directly addresses
this issue. It seems to be a related to gmail's use of AJAX-type code.
In fact, I think release 3 uses gmail as an informal benchmark to see
that 'improvements' do something. 

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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