On 23/03/2008, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Do you have the adobe acrobat reader installed? I saw something similar to what you describe when i installed that. Removing it again fixed it.
