[Nameless]

I'm running the latest version of the terrific web browser Firefox 1.0.6 and have noticed that sometimes, for seemingly unknown reasons, it would raise it's CPU use in task manager from 02-13 to an unreasonable 46-52 percent.

This naturally causes my CPU to heat up. It stays for a while and then returns to normal as if nothing had happened. I was just wondering what could be the reason for this.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[Techie]

no idea dont have that problem here

only suggestion i've got is try uninstall the old version or plugins and then use www.getfirefox.com to redo it, think its more of a windows issue neway ...

 

[Snake785]

Perhaps the websites you are visiting are using flash or java or something like that. Those usually use quite a bit of your CPU.

 

[Alias]

flash especially... sites like gamespot.com or anandtech.com which have quite a few flash applets as advertisement areas (and their advertisers make the ads as flashy as possible) really can start eating up cpu resources, esp with firefox.

I've noticed gamespot.com can use close to 70% of my resources under firefox, but then again, I only have a 1.5 GHz p4