FF Causes High CPU Usage

[hawk_196]

Hmmm..


For some reason, Firefox is laggin a whole bunch lately. It never used to do this. Like, when a web page loads, my cursor jumps all over the page (if I move it of course) and if I scroll, it hops and lags (and my computer beeps at me). Before it would usually show up as 11,000 mem usage in task manager and now its like 50,000 (71,000 right now) I check the cpu usage chart, and when im not doing anything its anywhere between 4-7%. When I scroll down a page its 40-70%. This is getting ridiculous. And I just updated to Firefox 1.0.2 (however this has been going on longer. I went and scanned my computer with Housecall to see if there were any viruses, and there were, but it was some irrelevant java junk that alwasy seems to pop up when I do a virus check (even though I deleted the files).

So what is it? Too many extensions? Is it the upgrade to 1.0.1? Should I go back to 1.0? Should I just reinstall? *** is going on!

[renegade600]

try flash block... it seems to work with others who had the same problem.

[hawk_196]

sweetness!

down in the 20,000's

you rock man.

[hawk_196]

okay something weird is going on

okay, i boot up, firefox starts and doesnt lag. great. this lasts for a while and i start laggin again. what do i do? simply log off and on again. it only takes a few seconds and it seems to fix and lag issues

and idea whats causing this?