right now on my n900, there is only conky, skype, and xchat windows open, but conky is showing "browserd" taking ~90% cpu !! I wonder why. I will have to kill that process I guess, or just launch browser again and close it and see.

later ... ok i launched the browser and clicked on one of the bookmarks, during the page load process the cpu usage went way down, and now its normal. If I had not observed this through conky, wud it drain the whole battery? Yes perhaps. These things need lot of optimizations.