goatboy22382

I was just wondering if anyone out there that uses a mac has been having trouble with firefox. for some reason my installation has been taking some where between 30 and 70 percent of my CPU. All I have open is this page and engadget.com. Also, this is on a core 2 duo macbook. Let me know if anyone else is having a problem and if you found a solution.
Thanks, Mike

weiln

Which version of Firefox are you running? You can always try the nightly release. Also, if the website is running Flash, you may need to upgrade your Flash plugin.

I think they're still shipped with version 8, but there is a version 9 which is much better. It's typically the first thing I do.

If you need to check, in the address bar type: about:plugins, then scroll down to where it says Flash. If it still says 8, then go to adobe.com and download the version 9 for Flash.

I've found on my Mac especially, Flash can suck a lot of cycles. Seems to be due to poor programming. I think version 8 was originally for PowerPC, and had just enough changes to make it run native on Intel. I could be wrong about that though.