FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed FF 2.0 from the ports.
> I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new
> page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup
> issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too.

Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using
javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the
client.

What are the specs of the machine?

Mike