On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:26:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few > weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my > machine in terms of response. > > "top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly > chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more). is this > normal? is this what others are seeing? because if firefox 3 turns > out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to > dump firefox for good. > "100 to 150 per cent of my CPU", doesn't make a lot of sense, are you sure it means what you think it means? -- Chris Green