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Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« on: January 27, 2010, 07:32:40 PM »
This is odd.  I upgraded FF to 3.5.7 not that long ago but more recently - like last couple of days - all the time it is open I hear sounds indicating a process opening and then closing after a few seconds.  This occurs approx every minute or less.  If however I run FF 3.0.16, my last version, this does ot happen.

I have also had an upgrade to Norton Internet Security but that too was way before this problem/annoyance anyways.  So - nothing comes to mind added or changed that coincides with this irritating deal in FF 3.5.7.

I closed everything except this FF version and also closed all ''live'' tabs that were web connected - I also stopped traffic - an option on my bandwidth monitor - so FF sits there with one tab open running an offline page - still this crazy activity!

I inspected all running processes for when this thing occurs but only thing I could spot was a brief change in CPU idle percentage - nothing else could be seen to change.  So - any ideas?  Is this browser specific - anyone had any issues?  And yet initially 3.5.7 seemed not to do this.  Other thing - any other way to track down a mystical process that only lasts a few seconds?
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 08:02:12 PM »
Try upgrading to FF 3.6.  In earlier versions of FF I had some memory and CPU issues when it was left on for a week or so.  Ver 3.6 seems to have solved some of those problems.

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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 08:04:12 PM »
Thx for reply - I'll try that soon as I can but for now will make use of 3.0.16 as an interim.
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 08:30:09 PM »
Update ....

Just put 3.6 on and - knocking on wood .... seems no repeating process.  Here's hoping it stays OK. 

I do have long spells between reboots and so maybe there was a memory/CPU issue after some time with 3.5.7.

Despite that - I'd be interested to know a way to track down an itinerant mystery process like I described!  Thx again for the input.
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 07:35:51 AM »
DLoad install and test Process Explorer.....did i mention it's FREE ? ?
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2010, 11:22:33 AM »
Thx Patio - I seem to remember trying that some time ago but IIRC found it was rather hungry for CPU time.  May well try it again altho this process I referred to was such short duration it seemed hard to track down.

Fortunately having moved up to FF 3.6, the problem seems gone.
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2010, 04:59:11 PM »
I'm suprised you observed that...Process Explorer runs in the background and takes up hardly any system resources at all...
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Re: Firefox 3.5.7 suddenly busy on some process
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2010, 06:19:46 PM »
Forget where I got it but maybe it was the time it took to get initialized - I just seem to recall something about it being super intensive that put me off using it.  Reckon I may well try it again.  Thx anyways.
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