From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:18:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401161835.GD1109@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1699778.Xdgj2DgDxP@wstn>
150401 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
> Thanks again, and sorry about the noise.
Your query is not noise : abuse of JS needs to be followed up promptly.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-01 14:03 [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox Peter Humphrey
2015-04-01 15:03 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-01 15:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-04-01 15:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2015-04-01 15:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-01 16:18 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2015-04-01 16:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-01 20:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-04-02 7:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2015-04-02 8:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-02 22:07 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-02 23:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2015-04-02 23:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2015-04-03 9:16 ` Philip Webb
2015-04-03 7:25 ` Stroller
2015-04-01 15:38 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-04-01 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " wabenbau
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