Closed Bug 266056 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

When I run FireFox on my desktop, it uses all my CPU power.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: Yan.N.Booth, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When I run FireFox on my desktop, it uses all my CPU power. I have a 2.66 GHz
Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 512 MB ram, and a 60 gig hard drive, why does firefox use
all me CPU power?
Thanks
YB

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start FirFox.
2.Hit CTRL-ALT-Delete, and click the Prosses tab.
3. Look at the processes for firefo.exe, and it will ALWAYS be in the 90's, up
to 99% used, with no other high intensity applications, or processes running.

Actual Results:  
It slows down my computer.

Expected Results:  
It sometimes crashes the PC, and it always make the PC run slowly.
WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050414
Firefox/1.0+
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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