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    safari 3 and 50% CPU usage

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hydrocyanic, Apr 27, 2009.

  1. hydrocyanic

    hydrocyanic Notebook Evangelist

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    anyone is experiencing that? i deleted the app and now using safari4beta and firefox instead, didn't bothered with installing it again before i know what is wrong and how to fix it

    i've checked with the system monitor and safari3 was program responsible.

    thanks
     
    hydrocyanic, Apr 27, 2009
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  2. Mr D

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    Firefox....
     
    Mr D, Apr 27, 2009
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  3. hydrocyanic

    hydrocyanic Notebook Evangelist

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    i hate to lose the 3fingers swipe for forward/backward though
     
    hydrocyanic, Apr 27, 2009
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    Were you on a website that was using Flash? Flash for Mac has terrible CPU usage and very often websites with Flash ads, probably poorly coded ones in a loop, peg a full CPU core resulting in 50% overall CPU usage. I don't think it'd be limited to just Safari 3, although it wouldn't surprise me if there are poor Safari-Flash interactions that contribute to it.
     
    ltcommander_data, Apr 27, 2009
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    I dunno, for me, Firefox3 is the killer. It'd lock up my computer sometimes. Since I stopped using it and stuck with safari, I have yet to have that kind of lock up. I hear that Firefox3 and leopard 10.5 have some issues with each other. Others say that Firefox 2 is just fine.
     
    zergslayer69, Apr 27, 2009
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    My Safari 3 only eats up a lot a lot a lot of memory >.>
     
    Lyanowu, Apr 28, 2009
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  7. hydrocyanic

    hydrocyanic Notebook Evangelist

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    sounds reasonable, but memory usage just keep the same level(50%) without any website being opened...

    whereas safari 4/firefox doesn't even on the presumed website that hogs the CPU

    thank you
     
    hydrocyanic, Apr 28, 2009
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    While I love Safari 4 Beta.... the latest Firefox 3.5 test version supports 3 finger swipes...
     
    doh123, Apr 28, 2009
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  9. Chris27

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    You can use MulitClutch to add these gestures to Firefox.
     
    Chris27, Apr 28, 2009
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    Bingo............ Use Firefox and Multiclutch.
     
    lixuelai, Apr 28, 2009
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  11. hydrocyanic

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    firefox 3.5 finally resolved the scrolling lag and forward/backward swipe

    even safari4beta is suffering the same problem, although at a lesser extent...

    full fledged back to firefox now

    thank you all
     
    hydrocyanic, Apr 29, 2009
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