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  1. Bug #38131
  2. Comment #104

Comment 104 for bug 38131

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Clayton Dillard (claytondillard) wrote : Re: [Bug 38131] Re: Firefox causes massive Xorg CPU usage

This has been solved for me by installing Nvidia 180.25. I have a
Quadro FX570 on an HP 8510w notebook. Suspend/resume works, no
sluggishness or other issues with Flash sites and no more CPU maxing
either.

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0000, alzekak wrote:

> Had the same issue on 8.10 for a while now. Solved it after:
>
> - Removing all unneeded FF addons (only kept NoScript for the time being)
> - Updating my nvidia drivers to 180.11 from (manually removing all remains of nvidia before updating)
>
> Noticeable difference after that not only while using FF but with System Monitor which would use tons of CPU to run.
> Scrolling on some sites remains slow but they were as slow even when I was using FF on Windows or Chrome or Safari... so it's a general issue.
>