firefox constantly loads one CPU core to 100%

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:04:31 +0200
Zeus V Panchenko <zeus at ibs.dn.ua> wrote:

> Bob Bishop (rb at gid.co.uk) [10.11.26 12:54] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 26 Nov 2010, at 06:46, Zeus V Panchenko wrote:
> > 
> > > i'm trying to understand, why firefox loads one core constantly up to
> > > 100% and even more ... [etc]
> > 
> > Do you have Flash in the mix?
> > 
> 
> no flash no java or other `external' plugins
> 
> i have only addons: noscript, addblocj, showip, colortab, tabmix and
> something yet (now unable to look)
> 

I see this behavior in linux-firefox too, so it's probably a generic
problem.  I doubt this is specific to amd64.

I also have NoScript installed, so maybe the workaround posted by
Peter Jeremy is a fix.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn