why are X and firefox sucking up all the CPU?

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• From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:37:52 -0500 (EST)
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  recently, firefox response time has just sucked and "top" shows that
X is taking 53% of the CPU while firefox is taking 44%.  uh ... that's
awfully close to 100.  what's the story here?  (FC3 system.)

rday

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