[ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
HI Using up to date 13.10 32 bit I occasionally see Firefox hogging my processor. The first I notice is that the fan on my laptop starts running at high speed. If I then look at the processor utilisation I see that FF is fully consuming one of the four cores. If I keep watching then over a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Anthony Harrington
On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:13, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-02 Thread alan c
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Anthony Harrington
On 02/02/14 15:41, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Custom Unity Launchers

2014-02-02 Thread John Oliver
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