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  1. Bug #38131
  2. Comment #120

Comment 120 for bug 38131

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Robert (robrwo) wrote : Re: [Bug 38131] Re: Firefox causes massive Xorg CPU usage

On 28/03/09 11:49 Conan wrote:
> The gnome-settings-daemon problem is not the main issue at stake here as
> it doesn't fix the problem for me.

I can confirm this as well.

> The main problem here is not one that only affects older computers. ...
> my firefox slows down to an unusable state and Xorg uses 100% of one
> processor core. This is on a 3.86 GHz core 2 quad with 4GiB of DDR2 942!...

I have a dual core machine as well.

> There is a possibility that this is made worse by my peculiar X setup,
> using two Nvidia GPUs with the proprietary driver with four monitors and
> Xinerama.

I'm running a single Intel GPU.

 From one of the FF bug lists, it was suggested that I run the latest alpha
of 3.1 to see if this still occurs. Since they don't have nightly builds
for x64 on Linux, I am unable to do this. But others may want to try and
see if that fixes the problem.