FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

[Abdullah Al-Marrie]

On 12/23/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> 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.

How about Opera, does it have the same issue?

>
> What are the specs of the machine?
>
> Mike
>

AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class
CPU) Dual CPU.
RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2 533 MHz.

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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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