Firebox over heating laptop
 

Have OpenSuSe 10.2 on HP Presario 2500 laptop, Working fine.While browsing the net with Firebox, machine slows down and laptop becomes virtually a oven. Have to reset and quit browsing. Please help -vadivel.

Have you tried the same web pages with another browser? Is it only with specific web pages (i.e. with a lot of animations)?

You might also want to check which process(es) is/are chewing up the cpu by typing the command

That way you will know if firefox really is the culprit, and just what kind of a drain it is making on your system.

A better tool than "ps -e" is "top"

just go to Konsole and type "top". Its a shell based task manager.

Also, try setting your laptop power management lower. I put mine on acquistic so that it stays as quiet as possible.

Could be your plugins causing havok in firefox... maybe even try renaming your ~/.mozilla folder to .mozzila-old and rebuild your firefox profile?

ComputerTemp works _very_ fine on my Sony Vaio.

This, together with monitoring your task manager, should allow you to get better control over your hardware. Only fool with Power management if you are sure: Higher, the Fan will go more often or continuous, lower, you'll slow down the proc, so to my opinion you can't assess which is better.

http://computertemp.berlios.de/

Cheers