FireFox is screwing up my trades.

[DeadMoney]

I have a trading plan that is working pretty good,
but it all revolves around placing trades fast,

I also have a newish computer, (so it's not some 2 year old piece of junk)
when I have noticed the last couple weeks my computer would freeze up sometimes for 20 seconds at a time.
it just happened to me again and I pulled up my task manager and FireFox was using 95% of my CPU Usage and my computer just sat there for around 25 seconds while FireFox was screwing around with something. Then it starts working again.
Is anyone else having this problem with FireFox or is it only me?

I will sometimes have 10 tabs open, and I am also running TDAmeritrade in a firfox window.

 

[cpngtw]

What's the OS?
What are other "heavy weight" apps you have on this computer?
Is is a single core CPU or core 2 or quad?
What's the RAM?
Do you have plenty of free hard disk left?

 

[DeadMoney]

TDAmeritrades command center and firefox and that's it.
but I think it has happened without command center running (not exactly sure?)

OS is windows vista
I have a quad processor Q9400
RAM is 8 gigs DDR3
disk free space 250 gigs

so this computer should not be grinding to a halt with what it is running.

 

[cpngtw]

use IE to see what happen? I don't really like firefox though

 

[DeadMoney]

yeah, I was thinking about trying that, but unless this is something specific to my computer,
it seems with all the firefox users out there, others should be having this problem too.

 

[rharmelink]

Do you use add-ons with FireFox? There have been a few complaints about CPU bumps from people using the Folders4Gmail GreaseMonkey script. For example:

"I have tried the new version now on two different computers. Both are Windows XP SP3, Firefox 3.5, Greasemonkey 0.8.20090123.1. In both cases, the add-on consumes 100% of a CPU while running. If I close my gmail tab, CPU usage goes back to 0%."

Personally, I've not seen the issue. A discussion on the topic:

CPU – Userscripts.org

 

[Trader333]

It is quite simple: Stop using Firefox to trade and use Chrome, Safari or one of the many others.


Paul