FireFox.. A CPU Hog Suddenly

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-12 07:55:21

If you want to use FlashPlayer, Google Chrome Stable is the best option (IMO).

While it is possible to use pepperflash with Firefox, the implementation is not as secure as the Chrom{e,ium} alternative.

Probably best to run it with firejail as well, just in case:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/firejail

unklar · 2016-07-12 10:31:38

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Anyway Can someone post what their plugins look like in firefox? This is mine:

Please

I used the plugin always updated so:

update-flashplugin-nonfree -v -i

After the news was no longer guaranteed by Mozilla, I gepurgt the

apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree

In Iceweasel / FF-ESR got pepper chance:

apt install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash pepperflashplugin-nonfree

 apt-cache policy browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash:
  Installiert:           0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Installationskandidat: 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy pepperflashplugin-nonfree
pepperflashplugin-nonfree:
  Installiert:           1.8.1+deb8u1
  Installationskandidat: 1.8.1+deb8u1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1.8.1+deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/debian/debian/ jessie/contrib amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

No problem.

Horizon_Brave · 2016-07-12 21:37:43

Y ou know... after all of this.. I think I'm just going to chalk up the extreme CPU usage to just older hardware.. I mean this is a cheap netbook, AMD's lower end CPU, and no GPU that I know of. I'm pretty sure the problem of this sky rocketing CPU usage may just be poor quality of this netbook... I may try downloading chrome to see if that is any different, but following the install steps and using freshpepper, it still shows the same cpu usage.

damo · 2016-07-12 22:20:37

Try Palemoon

Horizon_Brave · 2016-07-13 01:05:04

damo wrote:

Try Palemoon

Thanks Damo, I'll give palemoon a go and see how things look. Like I said though, I'm beginning to think this isn't really a bug, but just my crap hardware that I'm running BL on.

Horizon_Brave · 2016-07-13 02:17:48

First impressions of Palemoon. very slick and minimal, which I love! reminds me of early iceweasel. On start up it ran minimally on the CPU:

Unfortunately it didn't last as once i got into some flash video playback, things went south as expected..

So..yea as I'm typing this I can feel the palms of my hands growing very very hot. The CPU's are maxed again and the browser slows to a crawl.... Oh well, I can degrade the quality of the flash feed and it reduces the cpu load...so I'm giving this one to just old hardware trying to run high quality video...

ohnonot · 2016-07-13 06:23:40

Horizon_Brave wrote:

I think I'm just going to chalk up the extreme CPU usage to just older hardware.. ... and no GPU that I know of.

gpu could be a problem, also depending on the driver your linux uses.
there's a setting in ff's preferences to use / not use hardware accel.
try it both on and off, maybe helps.

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Unfortunately it didn't last as once i got into some flash video playback, things went south as expected..

well you can blame flash for that.
that's not gonna change, whichever browser you use.

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