Howdy again, On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 10:02 -0400, taharka wrote: > Howdy, > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:01 +0200, Patrick wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:55 -0400, Nigel J. Terry wrote: > > [snip] > > > I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only > > > happens with some pages, try: > > > > > > http://free.grisoft.com > > > > > > When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up >90% of my > > > processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO and it makes no > > > difference > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > It's the javascript that's eating up the cpu cycles. Try that site with > > javascript disabled and you'll see the difference. > > Speaking of javascript, it's not a good idea to be running it. Have a > look at the "Noscript" extension extension for Firefox. It gives you the > option for temporarily enabling javascript for sites where you > absolutely need it ;-) You can also specify which sites you want it > enabled for. Whoops, forgot to mention the authors website :-( http://www.noscript.net > > Regards, > > Patrick > > taharka > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. >
