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What is Firefox doing?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20262943 views
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If one watches Firefox's CPU consumption, one can see it consuming large amounts of CPU even while it's not being interacted with. On lower-spec computers, this can cause performance problems that significantly affect other applications. Is there any way to find out what Firefox is actually doing, …

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This is a bug in Flash. I have no idea what has caused it (and written about it in previous answers). It is something about certain movies that when compiled, take up very high (sometimes maximum) amounts of CPU when in any web browser. I have a few…

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