Firefox hangs at random moments and uses 25% of the CPU (one core)
Hello,
On random websites and moments, I notice Firefox using 25%CPU. I have 4 cores. I don't know what's causing it, and it is pretty annoying. It just hangs and becomes unresponsive for about ~ 30-45 seconds. After that it happily continues without problems. It doesn't actually crash, it only hangs.
I think it's something with an extension that's causing it. I have this as well on my laptop, that has Hyperthreading. (this PC doesn't) - On the laptop it uses 13% CPU when the same issue appears.
I have Firefox 5 fully updated. Addons I use:
Ghostery
Adblock Plus
HTTPS Everywhere
WOT (Web of Trust)
I use on both computers Windows 7 Professional. One of them is English, the other Dutch. Both legal and with all updates.
I also have the Flash and Silverlight plugin, up-to-date.
If there's any other information you need please let me know. Would like to have the issue resolved :)
Thanks,
Niels
Nope - no fix yet :( I have installed a few new addons though: HTTPSEverywhere, Ghostery and NoScript. I'm not sure which one is causing it, but one of them caused the problem to drastically reduce. I have it once a month now, maybe.. Before that I had it multiple times a day.
It's probably Ghostery or Noscript fixing it, due to the things they forbid from loading :)
Niels
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<pre><nowiki>hav0ck@hssm:~$ firefox -g
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/firefox/firefox...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) start
Function "main" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
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