🚀 go-pugleaf

On Nov 27, 2:04 pm, Addinall <addin...@addinall.net> wrote:
> Still having a great UBUNTU experience.
> Although, the machine was running SLLLOOOWWWLLLYYY,
> so I had a quick loo why this weekend.
> Profiling what was running revealed a memory hog by the name of
>
>    plugin-container
>
> ALWAYS using ~80% CPU
>
> After a bit of a dig I found out that this is a security wrapper built
> into the firefox suite to 'fix' plugin crashes.
>
> You can get rid of this 'feature' by going to
>
> about:config
>
> Filter   dom.ipc
>
> and set the true attributes to false.
>
> This gets rid of the security wrapper.
>
> Restart firefox.
>
> That takes Firefox CPU use down to 30%-40% CPU even when idle.
> The memory managemen is rather poor, so I ditched it in favor of
> Opera for Linux.
>
> BIG improvement.

Until you hit Facebook.
Opera does not like the PHP/Javascript/FLASH! construct in the Zynga
suites.
Not even a little bit.  I downloaded the v11 BETA to see if it has
been
fixed, alas, no.  One would think that if you were releasing a browser
in
this age, one MIGHT test it against facebook...praps....
Chrome works just fine.  FAST.

Cheers,
Mark Addinall.

>
> TOTAL CPU now down to 12% including LAMP, Bind9, Postfix etc.
> And the whole system is behaving in a better way.
>
> So.  Firefox looks broken for a while.  This happened to KDE.
> 'Improved' it out of existence.
>
> HTH.
> Mark Addinall.