businesslogs.com — if you click and hold the mouse button anywhere inside the Firefox browser interface, your CPU usage will immediately jump to nearly full and The Fox will bog your system until you let go. This bug has been in Bugzillafor three years, and for Powerbook and iBook users, this bug could make Firefox drain your battery quickly.
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zerozenDec 1, 2005
FF 1.5, Powermac G5 dual 1.8 and yes it takes 99% of the CPU after a couple of seconds.
dimplemonkeyDec 1, 2005
yeah, I've had this problem for quite a while and thought it was just me. I'm glad somone's brought this out into the spotlight. I've taught myself not to do this and am quickly reminded by my fans when I do.
ihate2registDec 1, 2005
works fine on window
Closed AccountDec 1, 2005
I'm running Windows XP on an athlon 1800+ with 256mb of ram and I notice that it also goes 100% for me when there are some flash banners on the screen, it also prevents me from switching tabs when thats happening. Also, is there a way to turn off the thumbnails in the tabs?
joejoeDec 1, 2005
"Dragging the scroll bar also causes this behavior, and on a page like this it was very natural to hold through the entire page."All the more reason why MAC needs to come with a better mouse than the throw-away single button version. Here's an idea, a mouse with a wheel to scroll with. ooooo..
effyuDec 1, 2005
i've been watching this bug since 2003 and am quite suprised at the lack of action on it. i do think it's a real problem, although i've found a workaround for the worst of it.while it's true that most desktop users might not notice this bug (unless they have a cpu meter installed), for powerbook users it is definitely a problem. when scrolling long pages with the scroll thumb or arrows, it consistently makes the powerbook overheat and the fan come on, and drains the battery. using a scroll wheel helps, but that's not always possible, eg. on an airplane, and you are stuck with the trackpad. and even for non-powerbook users, 100% cpu use for long periods of time will definitely affect the overall performance of your system, especially if you have any other tasks running in the background. someone commented that there's "no slowdown" because it's a "low priority thread", but that is "total BS". it is really and truely 100% cpu use. also, it doesn't take the 4-7 seconds to kick in that other people have mentioned. it is immediate. perhaps your activity monitor is not sensitive enough (try MenuMeters). furthermore, this is not an unavoidable problem of being a carbon app. i have many other carbon apps and none of them behave this way.luckily there's a solution for the scrolling, which is to use a theme that uses native aqua scroll widgets, for example the "classic" theme. i modified my favourite theme "pinball" to use native widgets and it works great.the other problem i noticed is with selecting text in an editor window. maybe not such a big problem with firefox, but this happens in mozilla and thunderbird too, when composing e-mail. when you click-drag to select a portion of text, the cpu is so bogged down that sometimes it "misses" what you meant to select. you have to be very deliberate in selecting text. no big deal though, and on recent machines (>500MHz) it's not really noticeable.
leanbackvidsDec 1, 2005
I've confirmed with fellow video bloggers that there is another bug with Firefox 1.5 on the Mac. If a page has an embedded Quicktime movie and you try to scroll the page or reposition the window, the movie gets shifted up and the the right. So much for testing.
Closed AccountDec 2, 2005
who the f**k holds down their mouse button while browsing?
binarypowerDec 2, 2005
Here is a fix, get Linux installed on that laptop :)
funkychickenDec 5, 2005
OMG, at first I thought this was complete crap. But I just tried in on my PowerBook G4 and it does happen.Don't see any cause for alarm though.
woleverDec 8, 2005
Re: Switching tabsI use SwiftTabs and Shift+left,right. Works like a charm. So does apple+1-9.