73649 - CPU load reported high when the browser is inactive

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67409

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew Watkins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.1b1; Mac_PowerPC)
BuildID:    0000000000

I'm using Fizilla, the binary released on the 26/3/01 after mozilla's 0.8.1 
milestone. When the browser has finished loading a page, the CPU load 
is reported in MacOS X as between 75% and 90%.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the MacOS X/Carbon Fizilla port of Mozilla, with Apple's CPU 
meter running in the background
2. Load a given URL and wait for the page to finish loading
3. Observe CPU meter and notice that the browser is still using CPU time

Actual Results:  The load meter reports 75% to 90% system load 
consistently, even though it's performing no work. Strangely, clicking on 
any menu item from the top bar returns the CPU load to a normal "idle" 
level.

Expected Results:  I'd expect the browser to return CPU time back to the 
OS.

The browser runs great, very well indeed, but this behaviour seems to 
reduce the performance of the whole computer while Mozilla is running, 
even though it is seemingly doing very little.

Comment 1

[J Luh]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 67409.

Also, the OS for this bug should be "Mac OS X"

Comment 2

[Matthew Watkins]

Indeed, this is certainly a duplicate of Bugzilla Bug 67409...

Bugzilla was not reponding to my searches for duplicates yesterday, and 
I'd somehow failed to spot the Mac OS X category in the drop-down 
menus.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67409 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe