firefox is maxing my cpu

my firefox is maxing out my 1.6 ghz cpu. can anyone tell me why?

i dl it from the site and have kept current with updates.

Do you have a lot of internet tabs open? Or webpages that use a lot of resources? Maybe lots of graphics/flash/etc..?

yes firefox is a huge hog of your cpu.. especialy with all these flash popup's and advertising that i only keep 2-3 tabs up while im playing and none when im gvg or tombs

i just don't have it open when in game and it's fine

go Firefox!

Flash ads are pretty much the only thing I've noticed that slow up Firefox.

An ad-blocker or something to that extent would probably help if that's what's causing your problem.

It's the flash adverts (smiley one) on this Website is what lags me, if they were removed or I could block the URL they came from, I'd be fine.

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sorry, lagged and double posted.

Heh you ain't the only one that does it Josh XD

And my back-up Dell has 1.6 GHZ Williamette and it runs it smooth as butter, RAM is probably a factor. If you have 256MB it is probably bottlenecking.

i have 1 gig of ram

its the flash ads that are doing it. I hate the IPOD banner. i like to look up resources while i play. might have to go back to IE

how can i block the ads or can i disable the flash so they can't upload?

Ok but I still don't see how they can be lagging you. My dell has 512MB RAM and it doesn't lag.

Well that is your choice, but your sacrificing speed for security :P