
Once it boots up, launch the browser and see if the high CPU usage has been fixed. Likewise, it is also recommended that you properly shut down your PC (no sleep or hibernation) and then restart it.Click on the Menu and select Download Firefox Update. If that is not the case, then consider updating it right away.


Unfortunately, some websites can take this privilege a little too far and with no in-built checks and balances, the API could fill Chrome's user data folder with megabytes - and sometimes gigabytes - of information you don't need." "As gHack's Martin Brinkmann discovered, Chrome, like many other modern browsers, supports HTML5's file system API, which allows browsers more expansive functionality when it comes to loading and saving data to your hard drive. The files are obfuscated but not protected in any other way which means that you can open them in programs supporting them." Opens a new window While I cannot remember interacting with a web service that dropped a 3 Gigabyte file on my system while using Chromium, it appears that is exactly what happened. "Chrome (and Chromium) use the folder to store files stored with the help of the File System API which is part of HTML5.
