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Firefox Slow, Fans Speed Up
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I've noticed recently that sometimes if I have over 10 tabs open in Firefox my fans speed up to 5000RPM. I check Activity Monitor and CPU for Firefox is at 100%. Even if I close all tabs except for one, fans will run high and CPU will remain 100% until I close Firefox. Besides this, opening the Application folder is pretty slow, takes 10 seconds to display. I've done repair disk permissions, but perhaps I should try Techtool Pro as well. Anyone else have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Alexander
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Do you have Flash open in any of those tabs? What Mac do you have and what are its RAM and CPU specs?
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Not really. Macbook Pro 2.6ghz Penryn, 4GB ram.
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What add-ons do you have installed?
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when i run ff same thing happens!!
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I used Onyx and I think my system is snappier now. I also reinstalled Firefox and I think that helps. I have an add-on extension called "Look up in dictionary" and "Print-it!" which I hacked to work with Firefox 3 and beyond. For plug-in's I have Flip4Mac v2.1, Google Update 1 Click Deluxe Installer, Java Embedding v0.9.6.4, Quicktime v7.6, Shockwave Flash v9.0, Silverlight v2.0.3, and Speed Download.
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If the problems return, disable your hacked extensions to remove variables that could impact performance.
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It's a good point, but I can't live without Print It!, which basically allows you to print selection from within Firefox. It's such an important add-on I don't know why it hasn't been updated. On my PC, IE and Firefox had print selection built-in. Don't know why it's not with the Mac. Plus the print selection plug-in I use on Safari is not as convenient, and doesn't always format correctly.
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