firefox 3 causing xorg to suck up all available CPU

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 1 07:10:08 UTC 2008


I installed firefox 3 from ports in the pre-release phase (via 
marcusmerge) and rebuilt it as needed to keep it current with the port 
after it was committed. I have since noticed that if I start firefox 3 
and keep it open (whether I am using it, or I have it minimized) that 
it will eventually cause Xorg to consume all available CPU. If I kill 
ff3 it will sometimes allow X to recover, otherwise I have to 
completely exit X and restart to get it back to normal.

I have since re-installed firefox 2 in order to confirm that things 
work properly with it open, and all is well, so it pretty much has to 
be ff3 that is the culprit.

Anyone else seeing this?


Doug

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