On 08/01/2012 07:33 AM, Cojocaru Alexandru wrote:
> Monitoring my system with `top' I noticed that IceCat had a CPU percentage usage of 3%/6% even while idle! Restarting IceCat with -safe-mode and disabling all the extensions didn't give this results. I re enabled all the extensions one by one and discovered that the problem was actually `Priv3', which is installed by default with IceCat.
>
> More details:
> Try doing:
> # strace -p `pidof icecat`
> both when `Priv3' is enabled and disabled.
>
>

Good to know, thanks for posting about this. I'm working on a brand new
extension for Privacy. After it's added to IceCat, you will not need
Priv3 anymore and Priv3 won't ship with IceCat anymore. This is
scheduled for roughly in 2 weeks with IceCat 14.

Thanks,



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