firefox eats up CPU usage

Bramp

Bramp

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Hi guys,

I run AVG, addware SE, CCleaner, hijack this, regcleaner, and spybot search and destroy around once a week along with defragmenter. So I am nearly 100% sure I have no addware/spy ware or viruses.

So….

What do you think is the cause of this? Take a look at the below images. All I have running is yahoo and firefox. Firefox using a consistent 75% to 80% of CPU usage, only on select web sites though, below is one of them.

I have:
Intel Celeron D Processor 330
2.66Ghz
256 L2 Cache
533 Mhz FSB
256mb DDR SDRAM

Thanks for input.





 
ive never had trouble with it. I can run several programs at once including firefox on numerous sites. No idea whats the problem. my system is in my sig.
 
Hmm, well 256MB RAM is barely enough to do anything these days. But that's not really the cause I think.

I opened up yahoo.com and it only used 3-5% CPU usage, when it was done loading it went back down to 0-1%. How does your Harddrive look, full?
 
I know I have low ram amount I plan to upgrade soon. I am actually quite surprised how much I can do with this little machine. I too run yahoo’s page under 5%. I have no idea what causes this with some web pages. It should not do it I think.

My hard rive is 50% used

Below image, running firefox 10 times, 4 chat programs, and excel.


 
guys huh oh?

guys it is doing it on yahoos page now!!! not every time but half the time it will pop to 90% CPU usage.... and the fan goes fast too?

I have taken fan and the metal thing behind it off b4 to clean dust. I don't know much about computers but have been reading about upgrade and says using glue?

Am I supposed to reapply the glue if I have taken the fan and metal part off the processor?

I have been using the computer like this for a year..

thanx for input..
 
Try running Firefox in Safe Mode (choose it from the Start menu). There's a slight chance there's an extension or plug-in (e.g. the Flash plugin) that's eating up all the CPU.

If the problem goes away in safe mode, disable any extensions you have to try and determine which one is causing it.

High RAM usage is normal for Firefox.
 
Bootup..think you missed the "hole" with that post.

Anyways..Firefox is bad about using alot of RAM these days it seems. Used to like it for speed. Not anymore.

Good advice on disabling the extensions and trying to add them back in slowly. With many things that is the best way to start.
That way you diagnose if its the program itself, or its additions.
 
Actually, this has been reported a lot as an issue. Many people say that it was fixed with a later revision of FF, but I can't remember which one it was. That issue was actually one of the main reasons I campaigned against FF.
 
Bramp said:
What is the purpose of this ‘Thermal Compound‘?
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A chip, such as the die on a CPU, produces a lot of heat. Were a modern processor to run without any way to remove that heat, it would overheat in minutes or perhaps even seconds.

To solve that, a large block of aluminium/copper is placed on top (the heatsink). The heat generated by the CPU then conducts into the heatsink, and can be drawn away with a fan.

Now, metal-on-metal contact between the CPU die and heatsink is not very efficient, so a conductive paste (usually made up of a mixture of silicon or ceramic) fills any gaps and gives much better contact between the two metal surfaces.

I know I could have saved the typing and pasted something from Google, but my name's not PC eye.
 
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Well I run a 700mhz 256mb ram with low space on my hdd only 1/4 of a mb and firefox runs smoothly with 5 pages open and windows media player on
 
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