Why Is Firefox Taking So Much Cpu
Jan 23, 2015 I definitely do not think it is normal for web browsers to use that much CPU. (keep in mind, this happens with all browsers, not just FireFox.) It gets even worse than what the pictures show. Does a Windows reinstallation sound like the best solution for my problem? If so, I'll unfortunately probably have to wait a bit before I can actually do it. Why do browsers use so much memory? closed Ask Question 9. Firefox with 18 tabs open = 1.34GB of memory (75MB/tab). Got a reply on twitter from another local developer mentioning his Chrome instance was using 82MB/tab. Why not make one big CPU core?
Hello,As explained via private messenger, I've requested that one of our Support technicians assist you with this, however in the meantime I think I may be able to at least offer some insight into what appears to be going on. When the RAM and CPU usage jumps up like that it's most likely due to a scan being kicked off, probably from the scheduler. That said, a scan shouldn't take hours to complete, only minutes in most cases so it's probable that something else is going on here that's causing Malwarebytes to get hung up when performing scans. In the meantime, just for now until a Support tech arrives to assist you further, I can only suggest that you access the Scan Schedule tab under Settings and delete any existing scheduled scans to see if that eliminates the spikes for the time being.
Once a tech is able to fully diagnose and hopefully resolve the issue for you, you should then be able to re-schedule your scan(s) without any problems. Add these as a process (you have to copy and paste.).Thank you for your help., so when a new updates comes out, you download the new installer and update mbam?, I will add them (with defender you mean windows defender or the exclusions of Mbam?), thank you. Btw, a new problem showed up. When I enabled the exploit protection for MS office, then can't I save word files. Word just crashes. I tried to restart my computer and I disabled the exploit protection and then everything works fine.Edited April 21, 2017 by Vincent50. HelloThe logs indicate there are a few issues with your computer.
Those issues should be corrected if possible, but our latest installer and updates may be able to correct your current issues. So, before we go the route of cleaning, fixing your computer, can you please download the latest installer and save to your computer. Then run that installer and reboot the computer even though it probably will not ask you to. Then after the restart, open Malwarebytes and click on the Check for Updates link and let it update.Then let me know if any of the protection modules are having trouble loading or if it's fixed your current issues with the program or not.Thank youRon.
Thank you for your reply.I downloaded the setup and ran it but half way I got the error that the 'PoliciesControllerlmpl.dll' could not be installed because of no access. I ignored it and when the installation was finished, I was no longer able to open mbam (see error in screenshot). Btw, I always have this when I just install a version over another (yes, the setup had admin rights).So I did a clean install (again) and like already said, the problems with the high RAM usage seemed over. I only still face the issue that I can't save MS Word files with the anti-exploit on (See my versions in the image below). Hi Vincent,Going to be in and out tomorrow so will probably need to help you with this more on Monday. But on Monday what I'd like to do is do a Clean Removal but don't reinstall Malwarebytes yet.
After the removal please post the mbam-clean log and a new set of FRST and Addition.txt logs.Please download and save it to your desktop.Note: You need to run the version compatible with your system.You can check if you're not sure if your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit. Double-click to run it. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
Press Scan button. It will make a log ( FRST.txt) in the same directory the tool is run. Please attach it to your reply. The first time the tool is run, it also makes another log ( Addition.txt).
Please attach it to your reply as well.Then I'll review your logs and see what is going on, before we reinstall Malwarebytes.ThanksRon. Please download the attached fixlist.txt file and save it to the Desktop.NOTE.
It's important that both files, FRST or FRST64 and fixlist.txt are in the same location or the fix will not work.NOTICE: This script was written specifically for this user, for use on this particular machine. Running this on another machine may cause damage to your operating system.Run FRST or FRST64 and press the Fix button just once and wait.If the tool needs a restart please make sure you let the system restart normally and let the tool complete its run after restart.The tool will make a log on the Desktop ( Fixlog.txt). Please attach or post it to your next reply.Note: If the tool warned you about an outdated version please download and run the updated version.ThanksRon.
Anti-malware: working fine, tested with a malware sampleAnti-exploit: Working but it still makes word crash when I try to save documents. This time I got an error when word crashed.
I attached a screenshot of that error.Web protection: When I open iptest.malwarebytes.org I get a popup that the website is blocked but I don't get redirected to the block page ( see second attached image). (I checked for updates for mbam and I restarted my computer but I stillfaces this issue).Anti-ransomware: can't test it because there is no test sample of it.The RAM and CPU issues seemed to be fixed.
Google Chrome has my mac running at 245-350% CPU and I have dual processors! Think about this, each time that you increase CPU usage you increase power to your computer. This takes power from the grid (even if is from a battery laptop that power comes from the grid). That increases your utility cost and the harm to the planet.Google knows this and wants to allow your computer to CONSUME. It is apparent that they must be allowing come kind of backdoor usage at this point. There is no way that a single app that is as basic as a browser can use 250-350% of my CPU to stream a movie on an i7 dual core.
Why Is Firefox Taking So Much Cpu In One
Can’t happen. That means that google is allowing others to address my machine to their use because of GOOGLE CHROME. Your machine is begin used by Google and programmers to do other things in the background that are NOT necessary to the task you have given it.The best answer. DELETE CHROME FROM YOUR MACHINE and tell google why you are doing it.
Tell them because they have bloated their browser and allowed it to use ALL of your CPU resources and have REMOVED the controls that allow users to stop this.They will then address the issue. Get rid go Chrome altogether.High Sierra using fully updated Google Chrome.Also DEMAND that Google release the protocols for Google Casting devices. Currently only available on Chrome for Mac That is ALL I use Chrome for and I still have up to 350% CPU usage on a SINGLE tab while casting. I have the same problem on my Chromebook. I have concluded that Chrome OS does not appear to use “light-weight processes” (LWP), an OS feature pioneered by SUN Microsystems Solaris UNIX OS in the 1990’s.
In original UNIX and Linux network programming, the “Bind to a socket” command was used to create a separate address space for each new instance of a process (for example a web browser tab in the Chrome case). Each process contained a separate address space which required swap in/out, and cpu interrupts, page faults, etc. For computer scientists, the Bind technology was an instance of the general problem of efficiently handling an infinite number of tasks with a finite set of resources. LWP’s provided an elegant solution by creating new child processes under the same address space as the parent process, thereby reducing the number of address spaces each of which required swap in/out, etc.It appears that Google’s Chrome developers have not produced an efficient OS.
The question is why has Google apparently not implemented a 20 year-old LWP technology? I recently experienced this issue. I have a decade old HP Invent computer with Windows 7 and I regularly use the Windows Task Manager to check on my performance. I was running chrome at the time and had the task manager open next to it. The cpu was running 100% and I couldn’t figure out why, so I consulted the task manager to see 5 instances of chrome running. However, I only had 1 tab and that was it. Even after closing chrome my cpu didn’t slow down so I decided to restart my computer.
Far cry 4 release date. Upon restart my cpu instantly began to overload at best guess, the back fan just kept getting faster and faster until I cut the power by manually shutting down from the power button. I have it running fine now but this scared me a bit since I have a lot of my personal work on this computer. 8 Gig is the MAXIMUM for highest and best use and fastest. More than 8 without specialized applications does NOT increase speed or reduce power needs. 2 is the Standard minimum and should always work.
4 should create a SCREAMING machine and 8 should allow for HEAVY multitasking PLUS heavy multi application usage.If one is running a SINGLE application or light multitask, such as streaming to a monitor and working on an average spread sheet and a document or three then there is NO excuse for over burden of a computer at all!I know and remember what could be done with only 32-64K in a machine. No excuse at all.
BUT NOT HOW IT USES IT. IT stays in ACTIVE modes using CPU instead of in RAM to be addressed when needed.possibly however there is not much excuse for it at all. Part of the problem is that programmers and application designers consider RAM as cheapthey all want the full 2 gig of ram. Because you have an OS and run mitultiple apps they can not get. They could design the app to use.2gig and run great, but that takes REAL programmers.
Firefox Taking All Cpu
Most programmers today are people not worried about ram or CPU. However 8 is the HIGHEST addressable efficiency unless special programming is used. That means that 8 gig is ALL that matters, after that your processor can’t use the data it has available.
Not even if you have a quad processorit is JUST TOO MUCH to process efficiently. Sort of like the limit of a human brain in a way. Sean,Thank you for this tip. For months I’ve been having trouble with Chrome slowing down my computer. I would have to close the entire browser and then re-open it. And even then it would sometimes stay slow.
The only reason I didn’t quit on Chrome is because I have a Chromebook that I love and I would like to use Chrome on both my PC and my Chromebook. So I did an Internet search and most of the articles told me stuff I already knew such as how to open Chrome’s program manager, close extensions etc. I was at the end of my rope when I read your article. I decided to try just one more thing. So I installed “The Great Suspender” and it seemed to solve everything. I can have multiple tabs open with no problem now. It’s been less than 24 hours but when I got to my computer this morning and instead of having to close Chrome or restart my computer, I was able to start my work right away.So thanks so much for writing this article.
It’s been a lifesaver! One poorly designed website causing the browser (and, these days, all of your tabs) to become unresponsive and needing to be “killed”.In that case, Google has failed miserably. Chrome is “unresponsive and needing to be killed” when I open two blank tabs.Why can’t Google automate the “suspend this tab”? Chrome can tell which tab(s) are visible. There is no need to run javascript on tabs that are not visible (please don’t tell me that because Chrome is so slow, a user might want to have javascript running on a hidden tab, since they went off to read the news in another tab because they got borrowed waiting for Chrome to respond). Chrome’s design doesn’t seem to work as intended. I still get to websites (usually news) that consume so many resources that the computer becomes sluggish and Chrome completely stops responding.
I have to kill it from task manager. I often have only two tabs open when this happens: Google News and the news article I’m attempting to read. Your suggestion that I spend thousands of dollars to have the ability to follow the news is infuriating, to say the least, I think the solution is to learn hacking and develop the ability to remove the websites (and their designers) that do this to us from the face of the earth. My other browsers are FASTER than Chrome without the multiple process issue. Current Safari SCREAMS compared to Chrome.The question is NOT the app it is the target site response and architecture. Chrome should NOT be attempting to “speed” the site because of site issues.Bad sites need to be re-done properly for the efficiency of ALL involved.
This includes your electric bill. BTW the way that Google set this up sites can Java Script your computer and USE YOUR CPU. Do you think that makes any sense?
Not to downplay the plugin, as I’m sure it’s usefulbut Chrome runs all the tabs in separate processes in order to prevent an issue with one of the tabs forcing the entire browser to crash (a la Internet Explorer). Notice that your Firefox has a single process taking up over 400k, it most likely doesn’t have as many tabs open as your Chrome window does. So, while Chrome has all those processes, it doesn’t really mean it’s doing anything all that unusual in terms of resource usage. It is nice in my opinion that it does that and thus allows a plugin to free up some of those resources. 🙂I’m a Linux user myself, so I don’t have much trouble with system resources being consumed like that, but I’m gonna try the plugin anyway and see how it does!