Re: Performance / CPU hogging bug in Firefox 1.0.4

Jay Garcia <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:39:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06.07.2005 13:55, [email protected] wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> That's funny.  Yeah happens for me too-- it's the background image. 
> Turn it off and everything is hunky-doory.
> 
> --jason
> 
> Joerg von Frantzius wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I encountered a performance problem with Firefox 1.0.4 on Win2k (Pentium 
>> IV 1,6 Ghz), and there are already so many bugs filed for Firefox with 
>> the word "performance" in it, that I thought maybe you guys here know 
>> better whether this is a known problem.
>> 
>> If you try http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-jsf/index.html and 
>> scroll the page, the CPU goes way up and scrolling is really slow. There 
>> is no Flash or anything  unusal on the page, as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> IE doesn't have any problem with that page and happily scrolls it snappily.
>> 
>> Thanks to anyone better in the know who is looking into this,
>> Jörg.
> 

Interesting, in Deer Park Alpha, scrolling the page moves the CPU
upwards of 66% but immediately returns to a 2% idle state. Nowhere near
the problem mentioned here for FF.


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