Firefox just pegged my CPU at 100%...

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I will go you one better than that. Running Lightwave on my computer seems to have allowed it to defy certain laws of physics. See the image below. I am running a Dual 3.00GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Macintosh Pro (ie. four processors).

DROOL!

Originally Posted by dlavery

With all four processors maxed out, I should be running at 400% CPU utilization (4 processors running at 100% utilization). But this software is SOOOO amazingly cool that I can actually get an extra 8% out of each processor! Apparently, the software included a little known "wormhole feature" that allows the computer to suck extra unused cycles away from other dimensions and transport them here for my use. I knew this new computer was good, but this is a level of service that I never expected!

Cool! I want a mac! (NOT!)

Or a PC with 4 3GHz processors...whoo, that would make one *hot* laptop, in more ways than one...

JBot

[Mike]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

Cool! I want a mac! (NOT!)

The shirt is black...... NOT.
I want a mac..... NOT.


Coincidence? I think...... NOT.

I don't know about 100% CPU usage, but I've been having other problems with Firefox. Half the time I start it up, it comes up with a message saying that there is a problem with the flash player and recommends closing firefox. Regardless of whether I close it or not (since eventually it just ceases to function), when I try to re-open it, it says that there is already an instance of Firefox running, and won't allow it to open another window. I either have to close Firefox through the task manager, or restart windows. This has been happening for over a month now, and even though we recently updated both Firefox and the Flash player, it still has this problem.

Any ideas why?

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by trilogism

I don't know about 100% CPU usage, but I've been having other problems with Firefox. Half the time I start it up, it comes up with a message saying that there is a problem with the flash player and recommends closing firefox. Regardless of whether I close it or not (since eventually it just ceases to function), when I try to re-open it, it says that there is already an instance of Firefox running, and won't allow it to open another window. I either have to close Firefox through the task manager, or restart windows. This has been happening for over a month now, and even though we recently updated both Firefox and the Flash player, it still has this problem.

Any ideas why?

I get every one of those problems, but not that often. I don't know why. Have you tried completely uninstalling Firefox and installing again, instead of just updating it?

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

DROOL!
Or a PC with 4 3GHz processors...whoo, that would make one *hot* laptop, in more ways than one...

JBot

I'm sitting here with a 3ghz P4 w/HT laptop thinking its getting hot, but I don't think I could even be near something like that!

I've been using Firefox for about a year now, and I've never had any problems when I didn't have a beta version. FF2 had some issues, but I haven't had any problems since the last update, except for memory leak.