On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 15:33 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Actually as someone else suggested Jvascript is the culprit. Turning > it off dropped the CPU usage from 70% to 7%. 'twas not the only offender. My Firefox, on the mentioned website [1], was around 50% busy in its usual configuration. I simply switched off the site's styling effects, and it dropped down to it's usual, somewhere around 10% busy. The advice still stands: Turn off styling, and the browser has less work to do. Same goes for JavaScript, Java, plug-ins, etc. I installed a plug-in [2] to quickly turn styling off and on, I haven't got around to doing the same for JavaScript. It's a slow and tedious job to go through the preferences, and I usually don't find JavaScript too much of problem. Not to mention that disabling it disables some sites completely. Bad page styling, on the other hand, I find a continual problem (micro fonts, stupid colours, overlapping text, etc.), and it doesn't usually make a site impossible to use with it turned off. 1: <http://free.grisoft.com> 2: "Read Easily" extension <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1224/> -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
