Comments on: Firefox CPU Usage Issue

By: kkman

kkman — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:53:50 +0000

Same problem here. Just open a few tabs on a site with flash on it (for example http://thesims2.ea.com/ ) and your CPU usage raises in a moment. Hope someone gets this fixed.

By: Api984

Api984 — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:04:48 +0000

Firefox eats my cpu at 98% and loads high memory usage. So i have to kill the process. Maybe something is in the plugins or extensions incompatible or a glitch. Firefox crashes at me when i load PDF directly from web with acrobat reader. And I noticed that sometimes it’s open when I close it pressing X on the top right of the window. I can still see it in the process manager. Today i left it open a few hours and went out. When I came home my PC was a stiff. Had to wait about 10-15mins until it came to itself. And to see in the task manager what’s up with the system. Firefox eat up lot of memory and was at 98-99% CPU USAGE. Dont know why. Not sure. 2 Monitors were at standby and music was playing and a download manager was open.

By: G9

G9 — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:49:03 +0000

I, and a lot of my friends, have the same problems. FF on websites with adds and flash use a lot of CPU – sometimes 40-50% on medium to fast computers – and this is of course way to much.
The problem occurs when having the same site open for several hours – then FF use all the resources.
I will try Flashblock, but its not the “right” solution in my mind – I hope either flash og firefox creators will fix this issues.

By: compuguy1088

compuguy1088 — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:50:17 +0000

Yea I can vouch for these issues, and this is when I have lots of tabs up , as well as having it up for a long time, then it really eats a good chunk of ram, around 128 megs. Though the cpu issues are not as often, and are not allways consistent..