HI Using up to date 13.10 32 bit I occasionally see Firefox hogging my processor. The first I notice is that the fan on my laptop starts running at high speed. If I then look at the processor utilisation I see that FF is fully consuming one of the four cores. If I keep watching then over a minute or two it uses more and more processor till it is using all of the cores. If I then close down all the FF windows the windows disappear but the FF process remains running flat out. I have to kill the process manually. Then I can restart FF and all is well again. I *think* that when it happens it is usually (or always) just after startup of FF.
Unfortunately this only happens around once a week so it is difficult to diagnose. I have the standard plugins plus Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Ghostery, Googlebar Lite, and Reminderfox. I don't want to disable them to see if that fixes it as it might run for over a week without problems anyway and I don't want to have to run without them. I have started keeping a note of which sites are open when it fails, but I think the only contenders so far are gmail and google+. Everything else on the PC appears to run fine. I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
