Comments on Kernel FAQs: Avoiding Firefox CPU Hog

Dave, it worked for IE too. I was using IE7.0 at t...

2008-11-08T13:01:00.000-05:00

Dave, it worked for IE too. I was using IE7.0 at that time. It is strange that media player plugin continues to hog processor even while it is not directly in use.

I made the same discovery, except that I simply ki...

2008-11-01T09:19:00.000-04:00

I made the same discovery, except that I simply killed the WinMM thread, rather than suspending it. Firefox immediately became snappy instead of painfully slow.

It works on Opera, too (which has the same problem).

(BTW, I'm using a 1 GHz Win2K machine with 2 GB RAM.)

Dave Burton
Cary, NC

WinMM, I understand that it's a windows media play...

2008-08-19T04:36:00.000-04:00

WinMM, I understand that it's a windows media player plugin. Once you suspend, you can't play those embeded video or music. Anyway, I choose to suspend it too.