Facebook slows down or freezes temporialy when using Firefox. Why?

When doing certain functions while on Facebook, such as "hide this post" my laptop seems to freeze for a few seconds. FB slowns down period. I have done the same using IE and all seems good.

I just tested it with a deliberate post that I knew would reveal the drop down right away, I typed in @Scott (on a friend named Scott's post) in a Comment, and the drop down showed me all the Scott autofill matches, no problem. Then I typed in just Scott and it showed the drop down but then immediately froze...?
But there are other instances where I have written paragraphs of text, any number of words should have drawn a drop down but they didn't, then suddenly I'll type a word and the drop down and freezing occurs.
It appears entirely random but I just don't think that's how these things work.
Very frustrating.

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nafmo wrote:
Hi!
I have a 2006 MacBook (Core Due 2 GHz), which I have upgraded to Snow Leopard (via Leopard). I am trying to use the built-in camera ("iSight") for video chat, but when I do, the computer slows down to a crawl, and the application that is using the camera takes all CPU.
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Does anyone have any good ideas on what I can do to alleviate the problem? I have not installed any specific drivers for the camera beyond what comes with Mac OS.
Hello nafmo
Snow Leopard's iChat 5 does require more CPU power than iChat 4 (from Leopard), so you may, in part, be noticing that. The best way to verify that is with your Mac's Activity Monitor utility. For your comparison, my new 2.26GHz Core2Duo MacBook Pro uses slightly more than half of both cores for Snow Leopard iChat video chats.
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