Thread: Firefox 1.1 is out
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2010-07-09 , 13:37
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Originally Posted by sondjata View Post
This program sucks battery hard. I went through 2 bars very quickly. I may try it out again but I can't stomach that kind of power drain.
I normally have Firefox open all day with 3-4 tabs open and almost no impact to power usage.

2 things to check:

1. If you have flash enabled it's possible that if you leave an active flash site running it could gobble power.

2. Check with top or Conky to see if Firefox is gobbling up CPU cycles. Will be listed as 'fennec'. It only happened once in months of heavy use, but one time it did get 'stuck' and I had to do 'killall fennec'. That has happened with MicroB a couple of times, too.
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