OK, I just ran firefox in safe mode and just left it at my home page http://www.phys.ufl.edu/fermisurface/ After a while, it started using CPU and using the hard disk, although memory usage according to htop didn't skyrocket. Completely closing firefox takes a while once the "thrashing" has started: more than it takes to close the window as if it were doing some I/O operations after that. The system goes back to normal as soon as it is closed.
It would be great if some other could confrim or deny what I'm seeing here.
OK, I just ran firefox in safe mode and just left it at my home page http:// www.phys. ufl.edu/ fermisurface/ After a while, it started using CPU and using the hard disk, although memory usage according to htop didn't skyrocket. Completely closing firefox takes a while once the "thrashing" has started: more than it takes to close the window as if it were doing some I/O operations after that. The system goes back to normal as soon as it is closed.
It would be great if some other could confrim or deny what I'm seeing here.