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Fire fox turns my cpu fan up when it's running.

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The system is not getting hotter, tried safemode and disabled all plugins

The system is not getting hotter, tried safemode and disabled all plugins

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it stops in safe mode, the only thing disabled is default theme.

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

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I tried that, still does it. In safe mode it doesn't crank up the fan. Only thing disabled in safe mode is the default theme.

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Name: Firefox Version: 37.0.2 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1

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Adapter Description: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Adapter Drivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64 Adapter RAM: 2048 Device ID: 0x6818 DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.2.9200.16571) Driver Date: 11-20-2014 Driver Version: 14.501.1003.0 GPU #2 Active: false GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1 Basic (OMTC) Subsys ID: 201c1787 Vendor ID: 0x1002 WebGL Renderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0) windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureContentBackend: cairo AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

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You have no add-ons?

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