TMP vastly increasing my CPU usage, making it useless, help?

CPU Problem · Guest

I really liked some of the functions, but very quickly found that firefox AND my laptop became virtually unusable because with the tab mix plus enabled the CPU usage would fairly quickly wind up at 100% and ANY action would take minutes to happen... I didn't see this problem mentioned elsewhere and would really like to be able to use tab mix plus. I'm hoping someone will know why this is happening and if there is a way to fix it? It occurs when I've got only a few tabs open too -- say anywhere from 12 to a larger number like maybe 20 to 30.... and it seems that the more tabs were opened immediately after the current tab, mixing things up that way, the more quickly the computer bogs down.

Using firefox withOUT TMP enabled, firefox seems to only use from about 38,000k to 77,000k and a TINY percentage of CPU (looking at it right now, its skipping between 0 to 2%)

WITH TMP enabled, the mem usage was over 360,000k, and I think the CPU usage was between 70 to 95% but don't recall exactly on the CPU.

I'm using a dell latitude laptop C840, windows XP Professional SP2 (oops, just got this laptop not long ago, installing SP3 while typing), 1.80 GHz Intel mobile Pentium 4, 512 MB memory.

I'd sure appreciate help on this!!!

johngalt · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

Did you try a new profile and just TMP installed with the default settings? If so, then try enabling each of your personalized settings one at a time and seeing which setting you're enabling makes it skyrocket....

Guest · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject:

Hi John,

I'm not sure what you mean by a new profile, or how to do that? Hadn't occurred to me to try each of the changed from default settings on it either, so I can sure give that a try. I THINK that before I gave up I'd tried it set back to defaults, and still had a problem, but will try that again to be certain.

Thanks for the light speed response!!

makondo · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject:

Creating a new profile. This has been reported here and in the Mozillazine thread, not once actually. Because it is rare (there millions of downloads and i'm sure at least thousands of TMP users), i believe it to be a conflict of settings and/or other exts. 'cause i, for one, never had this problem (yes, i'm still with Fx2 but this issue has been reported even before Fx2). Try a clean profile with only TMP installed first, like John said.

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