{"id":15,"date":"2008-03-10T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives2\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-04-20T01:56:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T08:56:43","slug":"why-is-there-no-process-viewer-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/why-is-there-no-process-viewer-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there no process viewer in Firefox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here right now my laptop is uncomfortably hot and its fans are making a really loud high pitched whine. Something on my computer is spinning the CPU and it&#8217;s making me literally hot. I look at the processes and FireFox is taking between 40% and 80% of the CPU! I&#8217;m basically sitting idle too. Well, right now I&#8217;m typing this message in Firefox, but 5 minutes ago the computer was sitting unattended and it was still going nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so Firefox is wigging. But why? I can&#8217;t find any way to do some introspection. I suspect it&#8217;s one or two errant pages sitting in a tight javascript or flash loop. But how can I find out which pages? I have 26 windows open and most windows have multiple tabs open each (one has 30 tabs). Each of them is open for a reason&#8211;some unfinished business I have at each page, so I can&#8217;t just close them randomly. Besides, that would admit defeat.<\/p>\n<p>What I need is a plug-in that monitors all the javascript and plugins that are running and keeps track of how long each runs. Then I want a unix top-like view of all the open pages and how many resources each is consuming (how much memory, how much cpu time their javascript is taking, etc). Why doesn&#8217;t this already exist? Sadly I just don&#8217;t have time right now to write such a thing, considering how much I&#8217;d have to first learn about the internal workings of Mozilla threads (I assume they are all green threads, because something is running so much my typing has a significant delay every few seconds).<\/p>\n<p>Please, please, please (let me get what I want) won&#8217;t somebody write something like this? How do you Mozilla developers work? Is there a Javascript profiler available already? I&#8217;ve searched the add-ons before but I can&#8217;t find anything like this.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is my lap is getting hot and I can&#8217;t do anything about it because I need Firefox open right now and it&#8217;s beginning to really annoy me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I need is a plug-in that monitors all the javascript and plugins that are running and keeps track of how long each runs. Then I want a unix top-like view of all the pages open and how many resources each is consuming (how much memory, how much cpu time their javascript is taking, etc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}