Firefox eats my CPU like I eat ribs

[fdiprete-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org (Frank DiPrete)]

David Kramer wrote:
> Whenever I run Firefox for any length of time, it often will evnetually
> take up 80%-105% CPU (as per "top") on my Centrino Duo.  My guess is it
> has to do with one of video (or other streaming media) addons, but
> that's just a SWAG.  I haven't looked for that correlation, but I've
> heard rumors.
> 

It happens - first thing I do with FF is install script block and ad 
block. make the swag go away ;)

> Am I the only one, or do others see this?
> 
> Is there anything I can do about it?
> 
> Is one set of streaming media handlers better than another?
> 
> top of my top output:
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM
>     TIME+  COMMAND
> 
> 15888 david     20   0  631m 405m  33m S  108 20.1
>     292:06.87 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/firefox http://www.linkedin.com
> 
> 16146 root      20   0  388m 221m  22m S    2 10.9
>      83:19.57 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth
> /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
> 
> 16399 david     20   0  137m  43m  13m S    2  2.1
>      65:02.53 /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace
> --loose-binding core ccp
> 
> 16651 david     20   0  101m  27m  13m S    1  1.4
>       0:41.71 gnome-terminal
> 
> 
>  3920 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   0:13.44 [iwl3945]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I also see this happen with gnome-panel, but I know what causes that,
> and have already talked about it here.  When running dual displays, when
> I launch an app by clicking on the desktop or from the gnome panel bar
> on my external monitor this happens.  Launching it from the menu on my
> external monitor doesn't cause this.  Ugh.
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