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Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:04
Firefox
Author: Addinall
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:04
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:04
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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. 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.
Re: Firefox
Author: Addinall
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:27
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:27
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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.
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