CPU spikes

[$kelet0r]

Problem:
I notice when Firefox is running that occasionally it will freeze up from anything from 10 seconds to a minute and sometimes even complete shutdown of the program. Now we all know that FF is a memory hog and has a RAM leak issue, so my first instinct is free up more RAM dur dur. However, much to my dismay, I find that the RAM usage - while quite high due to FF and some other useless things like windows defender and explorer.exe - is stable. However, the CPU graph shows a massive CPU spike. Now I'm still not convinced it is a CPU issue because to my knowledge that doesn't make sense but I'm at a loss to explain it. Is it a software issue with FF or something else?

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Why don't you just use IE? Go on you know you want to.

 

[$kelet0r]

because IE crashes when you do nothing At least with FF only WMP will bring it to its knees
It could be something as simple as having too many memory intensive tabs open but I'd like to know for sure

 

[Reaktor4]

opera.

 

[$kelet0r]

look i'm not changing browser - i simply want an explanation

 

[Reaktor4]

if it happens when a page is loading its probably the websites fault, if it happens at random times its probably because the firefox programmers are noobs and therefore operaman to the rescue.

 

[Drackard]

Mine does this sometimes and i don't have a clue why, it's even weirder when i change theme sometimes and some themes (desktop themes) make my browser constantly bop up and down :| so i can't use that theme, tis rather annoying lol

 

[NeptuneUK]

memory hogger?? is 35mb a lot to you?

anyway
it smells like a software problem, malware tbh

 

[$kelet0r]

memory hogger?? is 35mb a lot to you?

anyway
it smells like a software problem, malware tbh

170,000K at the moment :thumbs:
and rising

 

[NeptuneUK]

that smells bad. how much memory u got anyway? if its a gig or over u shouldnt notice.

spyware and virus scan

 

[15357]

FF...... heathen!

 

[Barney Fife]

IE dont leave the desktop without it.

 

[$kelet0r]

that smells bad. how much memory u got anyway? if its a gig or over u shouldnt notice.

spyware and virus scan

It's always been this way and I only have 512mb RAM so it does become a problem because obviously there's more than FF running
Spybot, Windows Defender and Sophos AV get nothing