I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0.3. Previously I had been using a 1.5.x version. After discovering Firefox frequently using 100% of the CPU after using it only for a short while, I investigated further. It apparently is makes tons of gettimeofday syscalls. I stumbled upon a known issue in bugzilla. Mozilla runs at ~100% cpu usage after connection is interrupted or wakeup from hibernate or standby. I thought it was some page I was visiting, but apparently not. Firefox 1.5 doesn’t have this issue on my hardware platform, a Dell Inspiron 1100 running Linux 2.6.20.6 with the latest release of suspend2. I have downgraded back to 1.5, which I was happy with anyway.

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Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. In Konqueror, when I hover over any answer, JavaScript is used to blur it so it is unreadable. In a more recent browser, I imagine the answers are completely hidden on page load. Exports Exchange, I raise my glass to your eventual extinction. Keep up the great work!

I had been looking forward to the latest release in the Silent Hunter series, Wolves of the Pacific. UBISoft’s track record in the past has been very poor, but I was still somehwat hopeful SH4 would be least mildly release quality when it finally hit the stores. Sadly, such is not the case. It appears SH4 is a complete and utter failure, yet another beta game shipped by UBISoft. I cannot say I am completely surprised.

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