Firefox browser and this forum

hit 36% when I loaded my response- woohoo!

Thanks for that John.

Portable FF behaves in a similar manner but only grabs about 35% of CPU resources when this forum is open. If I go "Back" and "Forward" between the forum and my home page (BOM text weather forecast) there is a noticeable change in CPU resources - 35% for the forum, 1% for the BOM.

btw this does not appear to be a memory issue - memory usage barely changes irrespective of which page FF is displaying - it's purely CPU usage.

Mike Harding

Try it on an XP box if you have one available. Currently mine shows between 0-7% usage for FF with 8 tabs open.

Interesting.

The XP box shows similar results when I switch between the BOM text page and the forum. However as the XP box is more than twice as fast as the W2000 (1GHz - 2.4GHz) the CPU usage on XP is around 20% to 30% on the forum dropping to 1% on the BOM page.

Just to clarify; CPU usage on the forum under IE is 1% or 2% so it is looking like a Firefox issue.

For the non techies: CPU usage will depend on which applications and background tasks your computer is running at any given time. If you want to measure forum usage use the "Back" and "Forward" buttons in the browser to toggle between the forum and a simple text only page such as:
Site Link

Once the page has fully loaded note the _difference_ between the average CPU usage on the text page and the average CPU usage on the forum and that is, approximately, the percentage of CPU resources the forum is using on your particular computer.

Mike Harding

Mike,

What MrBitchi said

with the addition that if you minimise FF, it frees the resources (memory, cpu) which were hogging your machine.

BTW, I use 64 bit XP, and its a blast with Firefox (I have a deep seated hatred of IE) and am currently using 2 -10% of cpu, as I type this.

regards
Terry

MrBitchi,
Where do you put the config preference that you described?
I am running FF 1.0.4 on Win 2000 also and the forum pages all use up 100% of CPU power. I do not think that it used to be the case because I habitually have various browser windows open in the background and have not noticed it before.

Phil I

Phil,
Open a new tab and type "about:config" in the address bar. The config settings will appear. Right click in the page and select "new > String" and follow the prompts.

One other thing, go to the extensions tool and download the "FasterFox" extension and install it. See if that makes a difference.

Hi Mr Bitchi

Put the string into config as you described and restarted FireFox. Unfortunately no change. The CPU use is low for about 2 seconds after the page has loaded and then jumps to 100%.

It does not matter if it is the main forum page or just a single post.

Nothing else on the web that I have tried does this.

Really wierd.

Phil I

I have been using Site Link to open the forum each time. However often when I post a reply I later notice the “Latest News” panel scrolling. What is happening?

PeterD