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Starting from Firefox 27, video stuttering & 100% CPU usage

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I'm running Windows XP SP3 with 2 GB of RAM and 3 Ghz CPU.

Starting from firefox 27 and now with v28 too, I noticed that the average usage of CPU is higher that before, and this is particularly noticeable when browsing YouTube and other video content based sites, where the CPU reaches a constant 100% and the video stutters. I have the latest version of Flash Player.

So at the moment I remain with v26, with which this problem does not exist. There is a fix for this, or should I remain with v26?

I'm running Windows XP SP3 with 2 GB of RAM and 3 Ghz CPU. Starting from firefox 27 and now with v28 too, I noticed that the average usage of CPU is higher that before, and this is particularly noticeable when browsing YouTube and other video content based sites, where the CPU reaches a constant 100% and the video stutters. I have the latest version of Flash Player. So at the moment I remain with v26, with which this problem does not exist. There is a fix for this, or should I remain with v26?

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Are you still having these problems ?

You say it is not video related.

Have you tried in Firefox's safemode and with all plugins disabled ?

Does it then still stay at 100% after two minutes browsing ?

That must make Firefox very difficult to use.

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Thank you for your support Waka_Flocka_Flame! I can add that the problem is not only video related. After two minutes of normal borwsing, the CPU reaches 100% and stays at 100%. However, here are the information you requested, and again, thank you for your support!


Informazioni di base


Nome: Firefox Versione: 28.0 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0

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Estensioni


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Preferenze importanti modificate


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Preferenze in user.js


Nella cartella del profilo è presente un file user.js con preferenze che non sono state impostate da Firefox.

Grafica


Data aggiornamento driver: 2-25-2009 Descrizione scheda grafica: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 Direct2D attivo: Bloccato a causa della versione dei driver della scheda grafica. Aggiornare i driver alla versione 10.6 o successiva. DirectWrite attivo: false (0.0.0.0) Driver scheda grafica: ati2dvag Finestre con accelerazione GPU: 0/1 Basic Bloccato a causa della versione dei driver della scheda grafica. Aggiornare i driver alla versione 10.6 o successiva. GPU #2 attiva: false ID dispositivo: 0x5653 ID produttore: 0x1002 RAM scheda grafica: Unknown Rendering WebGL: Bloccato a causa della versione dei driver della scheda grafica. Aggiornare i driver alla versione 10.6 o successiva. Versione driver: 8.591.0.0 windowLayerManagerRemote: false AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureContentBackend: cairo AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

JavaScript


GC incrementale: true

Accessibilità


Attivato: false Impedisci accessibilità: 0

Versioni librerie


NSPR Versione minima prevista: 4.10.3 Versione in uso: 4.10.3

NSS Versione minima prevista: 3.15.5 Basic ECC Versione in uso: 3.15.5 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Versione minima prevista: 3.15.5 Basic ECC Versione in uso: 3.15.5 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Versione minima prevista: 3.15.5 Basic ECC Versione in uso: 3.15.5 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Versione minima prevista: 3.15.5 Versione in uso: 3.15.5

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Are you still having these problems ?

You say it is not video related.

Have you tried in Firefox's safemode and with all plugins disabled ?

Does it then still stay at 100% after two minutes browsing ?

That must make Firefox very difficult to use.

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I found the culprit. It's DownloadHelper. Uninstalled and everything works again. Sorry for the inconvenience, it was not a Firefox issue.

john99, thanks for putting me in the right way for troubleshooting this problem (now solved).

In my personal setup, DownloadHelper causes the issues starting from firefox v27 and above.