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syswizard

Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 3615

01-21-12 04:15 PM

I finally tuned FF 8 to work at a decent CPU consumption.
Along comes a new version and it totally swamps my fast CPU. I can't even type this posting without they keyword freezing.
Anyone else experience this ?
I think their solution is to change profiles. But if you do that, you lose all of your history and all of your bookmarks. Great solution !

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j_medved

Registered: Sep 2001
Posts: 1717

01-21-12 04:58 PM

have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode? chances are that it is one of the add-ons that are causing the problem

Go to Start > Run and type Firefox –safe-mode

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rwk

Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 984

01-21-12 05:38 PM

Most of the time FF9 works well on my Win7 (64-bit) system, but last night it froze while trying to print a large website. FF printing has always been crappy, but FF is still my preferred browser because of the add-ons.

For the OP, I recommend trying to identify what is running (add-ons, scripts, etc) when you get 100% CPU utilization. There are also things you can do to speed up FF, such a compressing your bookmark database.

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kcgoogler

Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 234

01-21-12 07:10 PM

Quote from syswizard:

I finally tuned FF 8 to work at a decent CPU consumption.
Along comes a new version and it totally swamps my fast CPU. I can't even type this posting without they keyword freezing.
Anyone else experience this ?
I think their solution is to change profiles. But if you do that, you lose all of your history and all of your bookmarks. Great solution !

I hate it when you have to tune a bunch of different things for things to work properly; for most common tasks it should work performant right out of the box. Did you try another browser.. say chrome for example. Its very particular to every person but what i have seen is for the sites i frequently visit and for my usage patterns chrome seemed faster than firefox in every aspect - mostly startup.

Most of the popular firefox plugins are available for chrome also and you can keep stuff in sync using a google account - all the book marks, plugins and settings follow you on any machine.

-gariki

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high99

Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 249

01-21-12 08:23 PM

Firefox is rock solid for me, and always has been. As I am writing this I am using 1% CPU usage. IE sucks. Slower than shit. Never use it.

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WinstonTJ

Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1947

01-21-12 09:32 PM

IE9 isn't bad- a bit buggy but I wouldn't say slow.

At this point Chrome has gotten bloated & swollen IMO so much that I'd say Chrome & IE9 are equal.

I've never really paid attention to FF on a Windows PC (only use it on Ubuntu) so idk what that usage looks like.

Most importantly - OP I think you have something terribly wrong or running in the background (like virus, malware) because I've never, ever seen an Internet Browser be capable of 100% CPU consumption.

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