Firefox goes ape

[hedgeborn]

Any particular reason anyone can think of why Firefox would go completely nuts and use 90% of the processor and drive the temperature up to 60c when all you're doing is watching an embedded YouTube video in a forum?

Using Ubuntu 8.10 and whatever version of Firefox Dell shipped with it.

It doesn't happen all the time, but WTF... Firefox seems to be a lot more of a resource hog than it was on any other OS I've used. Should I upgrade something here. :confused:

[jerrrys]

there seems to be a couple of things on this

http://www.google.com/search?q=high+processor+usage+youtube+ubuntu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

[hedgeborn]

Thanks.

This looks like a reasonable solution:

http://fpreto.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/flash-10-high-cpu-usage-on-ubuntu-810-intrepid/

Do I need to uninstall the current version of Flash first?

[jerrrys]

can't have two flash going at the same time...good luck

[hedgeborn]

*bump*

[izizzle]

can't have two flash going at the same time...good luck

Yes you need to uninstall it first. lol.