kams

God Bless Spell-Check, never realized I made so many mistakes . You get American English too

Jay

Nope.

Ive been looking at it for the past 2 days, and my CPU spikes to 100% every time I refresh a page. I'll look if I can optimize it.

I already has the session manager and stuff through an add on, so if nothing works I'm gonna roll back or test drive Opera.

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Jay

And btw IE7 is not bad at all, major functionality wise MSFT catched up with Firefox.

kams

Oh ok. I had similar problem ( runs normally for 10 minutes and then for next 10 minutes slow as hell) and on task manager I found a .exe file consuming hell lot of CPU power. Google told me that its Windows Defender and is a common problem. I un-installed it now everything is cool (I have spysweeper). Windows Live care (or One care whatever its called has same problem).

Jay

I have my work cutout,

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=476400

cirrrocco

so what extensions were you running??

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cirrrocco

why dont you uninstall live care and other bloatware and disable scripts on the brpwser (if ur using firefox), that way nothing can execute when you are browsing..
that way you remove all sort of start up processes and also give your CPU some nice breathing space..

my msconfig (startup) only has four items running, soundman,avgcc,ati,syn
please check your startup logs and see if you any unecesarry progrs hogging ur cpu



I am satisfied to say tha after using mizilla based browser for about three years, I havent had a single spyware or virus (I also have free AVG anti virus running)

kams

Oh Sheeeet.. thanks for the links, let me check.

Jay

Ditto here, but I have Firefox, PeerGuardian, Kerio and Norton AV. Infact none of my computers were ever infected with a virus or spyware

kams

Cirrroco,
Will do, Thanks, (As I am not a computer geek may yell for help )
I have McAfee Internet security center (damn thing takes forever to boot) and Spy sweeper and Firefox.

cirrrocco

remove mcafee and install avg man...mcafee runs abt 10 processes whereas avg just runs three on ur task manager..uses less cpu..realtime uodate and best of all freee..try it and you can relegate acafee to the bins

download page for free AVG

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng...nti-virus-free

after download make sure u setp a schedule for scan as well as virus updates

cirrrocco

kerio has stooped devleopment ..or so I heard is that true??

Also I see u use PG: what do you download Jay :p

gunnut

Your CPU is supposed to spike to 100% usage when running a program. The faster the CPU, the faster it completes the operation and returns to idle mode.

Of course everything else in your computer can slow it down. Slow hard drive, low memory when trying to run apps that are memory intensive, or running other programs in the background.

Windows XP is very memory intensive (not as much as Vista). It's extremely sluggish on any system with lower than 512MB of RAM. It absolutely flies on system with more than 1GB of RAM.


edit to add:

Programs running in the foreground generally will spike your CPU usage to 100%. Programs running in the background may not. Programs designed to run in the background usually don't, like virus scan or some other maintainance programs.

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Jay

Umm, no, not really, I can expect it to spike to 100 when its loading, but not when opening a new tab.

I have a gig of RAM, I have programs that defrags RAM and Pagefile. With out firefox 2.0 its all well and good, but with Firefox 2.0, my processor gets hammered. I also have 2 extra fans for my laptop, so cooling is not an issue.

Well, rtvscan, svchost hogs your memory and CPU and if there are too many IP connections then your firewall also might spike up memory/CPU.

Almost all of the features covered in 2.0 is already available as add-ons for 1.5. So, I'm going back to FF 1.5

Jay

Kerio was bought by Sunbelt, and I'm using v2.0, I need a frills free firewall and it serves my purpose.
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