{"id":111,"date":"2009-12-07T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-12-07T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:23:25","slug":"solving-firefox-3-5-5-slow-response-and-high-cpu-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/solving-firefox-3-5-5-slow-response-and-high-cpu-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Firefox 3.5.5 slow response and high CPU usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I got fed up of Firefox 3.5.x eating up CPU cycles and not being responsive&#8230;. So I decided to google that to see what other have experienced and tried.<\/p>\n<p>After uninstalling Flash (just to be sure as it seems it was not guilty this time \ud83d\ude42 ), I tried looking for thing in the configuration.<\/p>\n<p>You type in the URL address bar:\u00a0 &#8220;about:config&#8221; (without quotes). Confirm that you&#8217;re going to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>The setting I disabled (and didn&#8217;t even have to re-start to notice better response times was:<\/p>\n<p><strong>security.enable_java<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is now set to <strong>false<\/strong>, as I don&#8217;t care about java on my browser.<\/p>\n<p>I do use Eclipse while programming, so Java is still installed on my computer.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if that helps you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I got fed up of Firefox 3.5.x eating up CPU cycles and not being responsive&#8230;. So I decided to google that to see what other have experienced and tried. After uninstalling Flash (just to be sure as it seems it was not guilty this time \ud83d\ude42 ), I tried&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/solving-firefox-3-5-5-slow-response-and-high-cpu-usage\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox-browser","category-flash","category-java","category-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}