On Thu July 22 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > No, but I in these modern Web 2.0 times, web pages are much busier > and thus burn more CPU (all the same CPU!), thus making each tab > time slice with all the others.
yeah, I do notice where some tabs have the little spinning thingie up top, and I will probably X those when I see it.. like weather sites that regenerate every X minutes, those always eat more CPU.. > > Presumably you've got ABP and Flashblock installed, which will > noticeably ameliorate the load of IW. hm, don't see Flashblock, but I do have: ABP BetterPrivacy downloadhelper Forecastfox greasemonkey Noscript Moonlight OverBiteFF User Agent Switcher whatwouldjesusdownload > Also, running v3.6.4 (with > it's out-of-process plugins feature) from Experimental (but I do see > where it now has the brand new v3.6.7) also greatly helps of > multi-core systems. I do have a multi-core and atop is showing: idle: 154% idle: 79% idle:75% chrome 16% Xorg 16% IW 3.0.6 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007220953.33138.deb...@pcartwright.com