Depending on what I have open, disabling JavaScript on my netbook can bring my Firefox CPU usage from 50% down to 5% almost instantly (toggling JS through about:config takes immediate effect, though if you plan on toggling JS often, I'd recommend using NoScript instead). All that background polling can add up and become costly (also, the constant creation and destruction of JS objects churns the heap and garbage collector). This is more of a problem with "Web 2.0" sites where pages and content are self-updating. I always have Process Explorer open, so it's trivial for me to select the Flash plugin-container process and kill that process tree, which instantly kills all Flash, and sometimes that does wonders. Especially noticeable if I'm using a low-end machine like my netbook on sites that have Flash-based ads (like Anandtech ). These are some of the culprits that I've personally seen in my usage: Here are the PassMark 2D Test results, I was wrong by thinking that the latest nVIDIA Drivers offered the best performance, maybe in games, but not in 2D at least, which is where I spend most my time, I rarely if ever play gamesģ26.83 (official driver for my G750JX laptop from ASUS)ģ32.33 (nVIDIA Driver downloaded from ASUS stolen from the G750JM drivers download page)ģ32.60 (nVIDIA Driver downloaded from ASUS stolen from the G750JS drivers download page) Seems like my problem was that I updated to the latest nVIDIA Driver.
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