Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Firefox heavy load

Recently found out that my CPU load is increasing when I start Firefox 3. Sometime until a stage that my mouse is lacking heavily.

After doing some research, finally found the solution.

Just delete all file firefox.exe-xxxxxxxx.pf in the following folder (assume you install your Windows at C:\Windows)

C:\Windows\Prefetch

After delete, the Firefox back to normal :)

You may read the following knowledge base.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:25 PM

    hi ding,
    juz wanna ask, after deleting the prefetch content got decrease the firefox memory consumption?

    coz some websites dun recommend deleting all the contents oh....

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  2. basically no. but what i'm facing is the cpu load. because of the prefetch, my cpu load increase to 100% for nothing. once the prefetch folder is clear, firefox back to normal.

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