Bug#680095: iceweasel: Iceweasel consumes 50-80% cpu when idling

Pierre Morin adrpmym at yahoo.fr
Tue Oct 30 16:36:22 UTC 2012


Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.10esr-1
Followup-For: Bug #680095

Some more information to track the issue:
After hibernate and re"boot" it seems the CPU usage cools down OK.

P. M.

> De: Pierre M. <adrpmym at yahoo.fr>
> Objet: Re: iceweasel: Iceweasel consumes 50-80% cpu when idling
> À: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <680095 at bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Mardi 30 octobre 2012, 11h12
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 10.0.10esr-1
> Followup-For: Bug #680095
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Testing user here.
> I confirm iceweasel's growth of CPU hunger these last
> months.
> And even up to some seconds freeze.
> I don't remember when it begun, may be spring 2012 ?
> I have 15~20 windows each with 2 to 15 tabs.
> The iceweasel process takes 60% to 75% CPU (sometimes even
> more).
> I mean when I do nothing with it, being elsewhere (xterm,
> reportbug...)
> Chromium and Epiphany are OK (with much fewer tabs).
> When I run (deprecated)iceowl too they compete for CPU.
> 
> Could it be a problem with their shared XULRUNNER or JSthing
> or so ?
> 
> Very few extensions and very few active ones.
> This CPU consumption is a PAIN : low battery life, high fan
> noise,
> unresponsiveness.
> 
> Thanks for the packaging work, good luck to squash the
> bugs.
> 
> P. M.
> 



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