386429 - Prolonged Firefox use leads to excessive X cpu usage

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cburroughs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070609 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070609 Firefox/2.0.0.4

After prolonged (days) use Firefox will cause X to have a constant level of cpu use (last observed about 10% on my Athlon XP 2600 for example).  Closing other running programs or waiting does not allow the X cpu use to go down.  Exiting Firefox does.  On restart the behavior does not occur.




Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Unknown how to reproduce but behavior observed more than once.



High CPU use appears to makes bug 263160 more likely to manifest.  See comments 92-96.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.