 | | Is it just me or is Firefox a resource hog? | | Dear CNET members,
Happy Friday! As always, there was no shortage of great suggestions from our members this week to Jim's question about Firefox hogging up his system resources. And the question at hand is what could possibly be the cause of it, and is it really just him who is experiencing it? Well, Jim, the good news is that you're not alone; others in the discussion have reported the same issue. However, because there are so many factors that can directly or indirectly cause Firefox to hog up your memory resources or CPU usage--there was a variety of advice on the way you can troubleshoot it. Just to give you a few possible culprits that our members mentioned are add-ons or extensions, visiting certain sites that are Flash intensive or have poorly written JavaScript, memory leaks, and much more. After you read the possibilities and advice from our members, you may even come to realize that Firefox may not even to be the blame at all.
As mentioned before, our generous members have provided a lot of great advice and insight to this issue. And if you read through the suggestions, I'm certain that one or more of them will help you get a better surfing experience with Firefox. If not, just be glad that there are other Web browser choices. I have listed a few answers in the Q&A section to get you started. Good luck, and if you have more to add to this discussion, be my guest. Thanks, everyone and have a great weekend!
Cheers!
- Lee
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Lee Koo
CNET Community manager |  | | Last week's question | | | Is it just me or is Firefox a resource hog?
 On the widely discussed 100 percent CPU usage problem on Windows OS, I have the same problem and it seems to be caused by the use of Firefox. When everything slows down to crawl, I check the Windows task manager and it shows Firefox's use of the CPU is at a very high rate-180K-220K, so I do an "end process" on Firefox and it knocks me off the Internet, and everything returns to back to normal. I tried uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling it, but no changes at all. I've contacted Firefox for help, but no response from them. Is this the way Firefox is? Any ideas on how I can correct this? Or is Firefox simply a resource hog and there's nothing I can do about it on my end? Thanks.
-- Submitted by: Jim L. | | | |
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