It seems that firefox-3.5 might not be the culprit. Same problem with opera also.
My guess is that after sleep something is going wrong with xserver and networking applications. top - 16:21:23 up 8:08, 2 users, load average: 0.62, 0.45, 0.43 Tasks: 202 total, 3 running, 198 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 49.0%us, 21.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 28.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.5%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1987884k total, 1907076k used, 80808k free, 44388k buffers Swap: 2104444k total, 119684k used, 1984760k free, 921924k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 31203 jithine 20 0 203m 94m 17m S 46 4.9 0:20.96 opera 3579 root 20 0 291m 113m 14m R 40 5.8 40:38.13 Xorg -- [karmic kubuntu] high cpu usage after suspend to ram https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp