On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 09:12 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:41:09 -0700 > MJang <m...@linuxexam.com> dijo: > > >Folks, > > > >Every now and then, Firefox seems impossible to handle -- I see a thick > >vertical black bar (approx 2" in a 12" wide screen) in the left hand > >side of the screen, and Firefox windows become almost impossible to > >read. > > > >When I switch into a terminal and run the top command, the number one > >user is Xorg, using like 80+% of the CPU.
snip > > My theory is that I was browsing and hit a web site with some Java code > that messed up whatever flavor of Java Firefox is using (I have several > Javas installed). > > I would second your hunch that it is Java related. I'm now pretty sure it's Java. The worst website for this was a message board where updates (w/r/t new messages by others) are automatically sent by Java. I disabled these auto-updates. While the vertical black bar still appears, it's a lot more narrow, and no longer visibly affects system performance. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
