Firefox eats my CPU like I eat ribs

[daniel.robert-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org (Danny Robert)]

Unfortunately my only evidence is anecdotal, but whenever firefox is
eating my CPU I've always found it to be the flash plugin.  Wish I had
more to offer.

-Danny

David Kramer wrote:
> Whenever I run Firefox for any length of time, it often will evnetually
> take up 80%-105% CPU (as per "top") on my Centrino Duo.  My guess is it
> has to do with one of video (or other streaming media) addons, but
> that's just a SWAG.  I haven't looked for that correlation, but I've
> heard rumors.
>
> Am I the only one, or do others see this?
>
> Is there anything I can do about it?
>
> Is one set of streaming media handlers better than another?
>