Fedora 9
powertop 1.9
FireFox 3.0b5

When I log on powertop shows <150 wakeups per second
If I start Firefox at homepage this does not change.
But when I type the address of a page (and press enter) wakeups goes up to
>5000 /s
After that it remains high (>5000) even if I close FireFox

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Wakeups-from-idle per second : 5294.8   interval: 10.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available

Top causes for wakeups:
  33.7% ( 99.8)      npviewer.bin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
  27.2% ( 80.5)      <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
   9.9% ( 29.4)           firefox : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup)
   8.2% ( 24.3)   USB device  6-2 : PS/2+USB Mouse ()
   4.8% ( 14.1)       <interrupt> : ata_piix, eth0, iwl4965
   4.5% ( 13.3)       <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb6, HDA Intel
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Thanks
Felix
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