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firefox-3.5 package

  1. Bug #16465
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 16465

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote : Re: Firefox eats up all the CPU with certain pages

It seems that this web page is coded with only javascript code in a
browser-neutral approach, no plugins used that I can see (no flash, no java,
etc). So it's probably not an issue with plugins, and is very likely not
related to #8589.

I haven't been able to experience any unstability while visiting that URL. But
it does eats CPU: just by having Firefox sitting on that URL and the load
average on my machine was continously oscillating between 0.65 and 0.75. But I
don't think it's a problem with Firefox itself but because of the way the page
was coded: to have that scrolling banner on the left-hand side of that web page
continously scroll using javascript directives, Firefox has to contionsly load a
new javascript function every 50 millisecond, thus the continous CPU load.