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[Shlomo Solomon]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I have a guess. Is your system 64 bits?

no

>
> This may be a helper process that is meant to allow you to run 32 bit
> plugins (such as Adobe Flash). No idea why it takes so much CPU, or why
> it is at all running when no plugins are installed.

Actually, I do have several plugins installed, but that still doesn't explain 
40% CPU use on an AMD 4200+ dual core. And even stranger is the fact that 
killing the process doesn't seem to affect how Firefox runs.



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