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strangely high CPU usage

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  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,933 Forumite
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    Happened again today. It was Firefox and I had to close Firefox and restart it.
  • earthstorm
    earthstorm Posts: 2,134 Forumite
    spaceboy wrote: »
    Happened again today. It was Firefox and I had to close Firefox and restart it.

    what version of FF are you using
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,933 Forumite
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    earthstorm wrote: »
    what version of FF are you using

    I'm not sure - I updated to a newer version when I restarted. Now version 23.0

    It may have been 22.0
  • earthstorm
    earthstorm Posts: 2,134 Forumite
    spaceboy wrote: »
    I'm not sure - I updated to a newer version when I restarted. Now version 23.0

    It may have been 22.0

    their was known issues with version 22

    you can double check by clicking the Firefox menu in the top left hand corner of browser then open Help > about Firefox
  • Ratboy
    Ratboy Posts: 433 Forumite
    earthstorm wrote: »
    1)where does she have the PC tower?
    2)does she have enough room around the tower to allow air to circulate and not having the fan grill covered?
    Strange if shes fried 3 HDD, possible a fan/heatsink issue if point 2 above is OK, so may need to be checked

    She had killed the hdisks over a time, not all at once!

    I'm a computer engineer; but the Windows CD, repair option of chkdsk /r DID work. It just started back up.

    Thanks for the info.
  • spaceboy
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    Firefox 23.0 is doing the same...
  • earthstorm
    earthstorm Posts: 2,134 Forumite
    spaceboy wrote: »
    Firefox 23.0 is doing the same...
    seems to be a fan or cooling issue. can you get it to a computer shop to have it checked out.

    I use FF 23 and as my PC is for my business this is on 24/7 and i dont have any issues
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,933 Forumite
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    earthstorm wrote: »
    seems to be a fan or cooling issue. can you get it to a computer shop to have it checked out.

    I use FF 23 and as my PC is for my business this is on 24/7 and i dont have any issues


    Why would a fan or cooling issue start using loads of RAM and processor power?
  • earthstorm
    earthstorm Posts: 2,134 Forumite
    spaceboy wrote: »
    Why would a fan or cooling issue start using loads of RAM and processor power?


    could be working harder to try and compensate as you
    stated the fan speeding up
  • Jivesinger
    Jivesinger Posts: 1,221 Forumite
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    I have a bad habit in FF of leaving lots of tabs open, and I have it set to reopen them when I next open FF. There are tabs that I've left there for weeks that I keep meaning to get back to.:o

    If you have too many open (especially websites with adverts busily flashing away) it can use CPU.

    How many tabs do you have open?
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