#FIREFOX TAKES UP TOO MUCH CPU SOFTWARE#

Like browser extensions, which are small software packages that add functionality to your browser. Expected Results: should use less cpu, as its predessor, firefox 1. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: uses too much cpu. firefox takes up to 90 percent cpu, in xchange with xorg taking everything they get. Ubuntu doesn't package DEs as well as Mint does but their support is the best. The most common causes for high CPU usage in your browser are: Too many apps running at the same time. This situation gets even worse, if there is a bigbrother page displayed. I would like to remove some if not all of them, but there is no option to remove / delete. To narrow down what is using a lot of CPU, I used oprofile a system wide profiler, with the debugging symbols for Firefox. With a single tab, with no site loaded, Firefox takes 5 of CPU.

#FIREFOX TAKES UP TOO MUCH CPU WINDOWS#

I looked into the 'Applications' and there are many, do not know how they came there. Ever since the upgrade, I am seeing high CPU usage, and it is not related to the number of tabs or windows that are open.

with something like this is search ubuntuforums and askubuntu for problems with the adapter with the ubuntu version your mint is based upon. My default browser is Firefox, but most of the time it uses almost 80 and more of the CPU and memory, which slows down the system. Also, Ive noticed that the memory for the process goes up by 30MB and then back down by 30MB every second. Once it does, it only takes about 10-20 checks of various checkboxes for the browser to go back into 'Not Responding' state for another 5+ minutes. actually I did do it with my 2 week old 17/Cinnamon install. It takes over 5+ minutes to recover from a 'Not Responding' state. SOme other models of the cq61 seem to use intel 4500 video, which is better supported than AMD but can still be a little iffy. It'll tell you it wants to open in developer mode when you first start it, and then will run very slowly because it'll then do all that stuff in the CPU instead of the graphics card. I removed all extensions and themes, tried again by leaving the laptop on overnight with the same websites open, but still the same thing. Checking the Task Manager found that Firefox was eating a lot of memory and CPU usage was going up and down. If you're using the Cinnamon DE you'd know by now if you have hardware 3D accelerated video though. I only left Mozilla Firefox running with some websites loaded which I usually visit.

#FIREFOX TAKES UP TOO MUCH CPU DRIVER#

You may not have proper 3D hardware acceleration with the open source driver and the proprietary driver will bork the video. ATI doesn't support older cards for linux. Firefox 38.0.5 consumes a lot of CPU on OS X 10.10.2 (Macbook Pro) CPU usage spikes when using Firefox Firefox CPU usage increases dramatically while playing YouTube videos full-screen Quick fixes if your Firefox slows down Firefox does not work - Common fixes to get you back up and running Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources. If that's what you have then that'd be the culprit I suspect. I'm guessing here, but a quick search on your compaq shows some of them use the ATI Radeon 4200.

Firefox takes up too much cpu