Firefox using WAYY too much CPU

Any ways to optimize things, I usually watch youtube, have open facebook, and some other blog, but sometimes it uses more than even Crysis.

Use chrome instead.

Firefox's auto-update can be spotty, so you might want to check and make sure that it is up to date (Firefox->Help->About in 4.0 and above; it'll also check for updates on the About page) and you're not just experiencing some old bug before changing. But otherwise yeah, it's probably a bug and you'll be better off with either Chrome or IE9 (which is surprisingly good).

Chrome uses less CPU. I went back to FF because Chrome doesn't save passwords like FF.

I went back to FF because Chrome doesn't save passwords like FF.

BoristheBlade1

Yes it does...

But anyway. I prefer Firefox as well.

OT: TC, make sure that you don't count Adobe Flash. That uses a lot of CPU.

Just for the record; I am running Firefox 10.0.1 on Windows 7 64-bit with four tabs open and am using... 0-2% CPU. So either you have a really bad CPU, are counting Flash, or something has gone wrong and you need to purge your plugins.

Chrome isn't a vastly superior browser. The fact that Chrome is growing so quickly is because of Google's advertisements and because the false information that Chrome is far better is spreading.

Chrome may load fast, but it loads pages like it's on dial-up.

My firefox uses tons of ram, but rarely any cpu.

Yeah-folks have been complaining about FF's CPU usage for a while now. FF is aware, and have said they have been trying to resolve that, but that was over a year ago that I read that article.

I personally use IE 8 & 9 depending on which PC i use. I know it has plenty of Ney's - but I really don't have much of an issue. I dont use any kind of Protection software either. I dont remember the last Time i've had any notable Malware to speak of. But that point is moot by most IE haters.

I believe that is the reason i switched to chrome. :D

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

Been on palemoon (optimixed firefox) for over 2 years and have never seen my cpu usage over 5% and that is with a stream running, and 7-8 webpages tabbed. If your CPU is getting eaten up, something else is the problem causing firefox to act strangely. Could be flash files, computer infections, or background programs you have running that are causing a conflict.

If you want to optimized firefox in the basecase: I always recommend you just start blocking all the ads, relinking, tracker traffic background sites etc with a couple plugins:

I HEAVLY suggest:

Ad Block plus

Ghostery

No script

Better Privacy

Disconnect

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

BattleSpectre

[QUOTE="BattleSpectre"]

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

Elann2008

Seriously though whats the problems with normal internet explorer? I haven't really faced anything

[QUOTE="BattleSpectre"]

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"][QUOTE="BattleSpectre"]

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

Xsan3

What's wrong with torrents and what do they have to do with your browser?

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

BattleSpectre

[QUOTE="BattleSpectre"]

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

mitu123

[QUOTE="Xsan3"]

[QUOTE="Elann2008"] You're brave. /saluteTezcatlipoca666

What's wrong with torrents and what do they have to do with your browser?

IE6 ftw.

Just kidding.

Anyone here tried waterfox? It's supposed to be a fully 64 bit firefox so it should be faster. I'm thinking of trying it.

Firefox on mine also eats up RAM but not CPU resources. I don't mind. I have yet to use 5gb of the 8gb in my PC. The most it's used is a little over 4gb and that was with X-Plane 9 running.

Use chrome instead.

GummiRaccoon

Chrome is pretty terrible. Opera is much better IMO.

Chrome may load fast, but it loads pages like it's on dial-up.

Snaptrap

Yeah, definitely.

Chrome is a rubbish browser anyway. I don't know why anyone uses it other than they are google-bots :lol:

[QUOTE="Snaptrap"]

Chrome may load fast, but it loads pages like it's on dial-up.

Tezcatlipoca666

Yeah, definitely.

Chrome is a rubbish browser anyway. I don't know why anyone uses it other than they are google-bots :lol:

Some of us like being part of a botnet.

Also the page loading thing used to bug me but the entire page loads before I can even move my cursor from the bookmark icon to any of the content on the page.

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Use chrome instead.

Hellsing2o2

Chrome is pretty terrible. Opera is much better IMO.

The problem with opera is that it has compatibility issues with too many sites for my taste. However I do prefer it.

[QUOTE="Hellsing2o2"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Use chrome instead.

GummiRaccoon

Chrome is pretty terrible. Opera is much better IMO.

The problem with opera is that it has compatibility issues with too many sites for my taste. However I do prefer it.

I would also be using Opera if it were not for the fact that it butchers nearly a quarter of my favourite websites. The ad-block is rubbish too but I could endure if it otherwise worked properly.

For now, Firefox is my most consistent browser. Chrome comes close but I dislike its interface (I always close tabs by accident) and the add-ons are not at firefox level. I also don't trust Google but maybe that is just paranoia :P

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="Hellsing2o2"]

Chrome is pretty terrible. Opera is much better IMO.

Tezcatlipoca666

The problem with opera is that it has compatibility issues with too many sites for my taste. However I do prefer it.

I would also be using Opera if it were not for the fact that it butchers nearly a quarter of my favourite websites. The ad-block is rubbish too but I could endure if it otherwise worked properly.

For now, Firefox is my most consistent browser. Chrome comes close but I dislike its interface (I always close tabs by accident) and the add-ons are not at firefox level. I also don't trust Google but maybe that is just paranoia :P

Ctrl+shift+t

I also close too many tabs usually though when I have 50+ open.

And chrome sucks with glitchspot, but so does every other browser

Which websites do you guys frequent? I haven't run across any website breaking issues yet with Opera. Even if there are, report them and make sure Opera fix them. Heck, I remember a major glitch here at GlitchSpot that rendered all browsers useless apart from Opera. :lol:Hexagon_777

It was about a year ago when I last tried Opera.

Btw, thanks for teaching me that shortcut Gummi. It will save me a lot of time :D

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="Hellsing2o2"]

Chrome is pretty terrible. Opera is much better IMO.

Tezcatlipoca666

The problem with opera is that it has compatibility issues with too many sites for my taste. However I do prefer it.

I would also be using Opera if it were not for the fact that it butchers nearly a quarter of my favourite websites. The ad-block is rubbish too but I could endure if it otherwise worked properly.

For now, Firefox is my most consistent browser. Chrome comes close but I dislike its interface (I always close tabs by accident) and the add-ons are not at firefox level. I also don't trust Google but maybe that is just paranoia :P

Which websites do you guys frequent? I haven't run across any website breaking issues yet with Opera. Even if there are, report them and make sure Opera fix them. Heck, I remember a major glitch here at GlitchSpot that rendered all browsers useless apart from Opera. :lol:Hexagon_777

Every year or so I retry Opera, I can't recall how many years I've been going to and from opera, but my last stint was about 6 months ago. The issues I get are just from about a week of usage and a large portion of the sites I go to do not render properly. and then I go back to firefox/chrome/ie

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]Which websites do you guys frequent? I haven't run across any website breaking issues yet with Opera. Even if there are, report them and make sure Opera fix them. Heck, I remember a major glitch here at GlitchSpot that rendered all browsers useless apart from Opera. :lol:GummiRaccoon

Every year or so I retry Opera, I can't recall how many years I've been going to and from opera, but my last stint was about 6 months ago. The issues I get are just from about a week of usage and a large portion of the sites I go to do not render properly. and then I go back to firefox/chrome/ie

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]Which websites do you guys frequent? I haven't run across any website breaking issues yet with Opera. Even if there are, report them and make sure Opera fix them. Heck, I remember a major glitch here at GlitchSpot that rendered all browsers useless apart from Opera. :lol:Hexagon_777

Every year or so I retry Opera, I can't recall how many years I've been going to and from opera, but my last stint was about 6 months ago. The issues I get are just from about a week of usage and a large portion of the sites I go to do not render properly. and then I go back to firefox/chrome/ie

You mistake me for an Opera beta tester sir.

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Every year or so I retry Opera, I can't recall how many years I've been going to and from opera, but my last stint was about 6 months ago. The issues I get are just from about a week of usage and a large portion of the sites I go to do not render properly. and then I go back to firefox/chrome/ie

GummiRaccoon

You mistake me for an Opera beta tester sir.

Chrome uses less CPU.

BoristheBlade1

[QUOTE="BattleSpectre"]

all you fancy pants using chrome, im just using normal internet explorer.

magicalclick

[QUOTE="Snaptrap"]

Chrome may load fast, but it loads pages like it's on dial-up.

Tezcatlipoca666

Yeah, definitely.

Chrome is a rubbish browser anyway. I don't know why anyone uses it other than they are google-bots :lol:

[QUOTE="Tezcatlipoca666"]

[QUOTE="Snaptrap"]

Chrome may load fast, but it loads pages like it's on dial-up.

JigglyWiggly_

Yeah, definitely.

Chrome is a rubbish browser anyway. I don't know why anyone uses it other than they are google-bots :lol:

Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari... they all load pages very quickly. Page loading is a moot argument for any browser.

btw, my comment about Chrome was baseless. I merely intended to spew nonsense just as the pro-Chrome people do about FF :P

I did set my firefox to cache to ram rather than disk to run faster, but atm i have 18 tabs open and it's using 650MB of ram.

I did set my firefox to cache to ram rather than disk to run faster, but atm i have 18 tabs open and it's using 650MB of ram.

kraken2109

Is this supposed to be good or bad in your opinion?

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

I did set my firefox to cache to ram rather than disk to run faster, but atm i have 18 tabs open and it's using 650MB of ram.

Tezcatlipoca666

Is this supposed to be good or bad in your opinion?

[QUOTE="Tezcatlipoca666"]

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

I did set my firefox to cache to ram rather than disk to run faster, but atm i have 18 tabs open and it's using 650MB of ram.

kraken2109

Is this supposed to be good or bad in your opinion?

Right.

What I don't understand is why people worry about 650MB of RAM for 18 tabs when they have 4GB+ RAM. People always worry about RAM usage but most of us have plenty of RAM to spare even when our browser is using 1GB.

I'm not saying that we should accept bloated software but honestly, under normal usage (6 or less tabs) RAM usage is never a problem on a modern PC. Even my 1GB of RAM netbook is OK.

Just for the record, Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox!

[QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="Tezcatlipoca666"]

Is this supposed to be good or bad in your opinion?

Tezcatlipoca666

Right.

What I don't understand is why people worry about 650MB of RAM for 18 tabs when they have 4GB+ RAM. People always worry about RAM usage but most of us have plenty of RAM to spare even when our browser is using 1GB.

I'm not saying that we should accept bloated software but honestly, under normal usage (6 or less tabs) RAM usage is never a problem on a modern PC. Even my 1GB of RAM netbook is OK.

Just for the record, Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox!