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veronikazaglotova

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[SOLVED]High CPU usage when editing the Archwiki with Firefox 82

Sorry if this is the wrong place to tell about it.
I went to systemd-boot page to edit it, because I had issues with systemd-boot before and thought that I might as well adress this issue on Archwiki so that no one faces it. I opened the editing mode and my laptop quickly slowed down. I checked

sensors

and it printed 82°C, which is ridiculously high even for a laptop. The load average jumped from 0.7 to 2.5, too. I quickly went to the Mozilla bug tracker to report about the issue and (because you can't contribute to Archwiki without registering) I thought I'll put a wikipedia page as an example, But in the end, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue with Wikipedia.
I suppose it's an Archwiki issue, not an issue with Firefox, because it didn't work on wikipedia.

Last edited by veronikazaglotova (2020-11-19 16:06:43)

mpan

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Re: [SOLVED]High CPU usage when editing the Archwiki with Firefox 82

Nothing like that observed in the current vesion of Firefox (83.0-1). Even after allowing JavaScript. Try updating first and see if the problem persist. Also check if it’s not caused by some add-on.

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Re: [SOLVED]High CPU usage when editing the Archwiki with Firefox 82

Nothing that you wrote indicates a problem with FF or the wiki. Can you even reproduce the high load? What does top say in this case?

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veronikazaglotova

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Re: [SOLVED]High CPU usage when editing the Archwiki with Firefox 82

Doesn't work anymore with FF83, thx everyone