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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox
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On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:34:19 Philip Webb wrote:
> 150401 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time,
> > even while it's not supposed to be doing anything?
> 
> Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU,
> which stops when I kill FF & restart it.  That's just bad JS programming.

Thank you gents,

Mention of scripts lit a lamp, so I closed the Twitter tab. CPU use went 
straight down to nothing.

Maybe I should have a word with the Twitter devs. At any rate, I can at 
least poke around a bit less blindly.

Thanks again, and sorry about the noise.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.