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Firefox Problems

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I’ve been having a few problems with Firefox 3.0 on my Toshiba M700 running Vista.  Intermittent crashes of Firefox are well publicised, but I am seeing another issue, that of excessive CPU cycles.

Often, and it seems to occur after resuming from hibernation, Firefox will take up 70 to 80% of both cores of my processor.  I notice this as the CPU fan fires up blasting out hot air and my battery life falls through the floor.  I have to terminate Firefox via task manager.

I have a colleague who is seeing similar behaviour.  One to watch out for if you are relying on your battery seeing you through the day!  If I find a solution I’ll post it.

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