Firefox
Addinall
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.
Addinall
> 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.