High CPU Usage/Load w/ Firefox-23.0 in Win7 Guest [SOLVED]
UPDATE: Problem Solved. It seems to have been a Firefox / plugin issue, not Parallels.
I have Parallels 8 Desktop (Build 8.0.18608 Revision 898384; July 17, 2013) on a 2011 MacBook Pro (2.3GHz i7, 16GB RAM, Mac OSX 10.7.5). Guest is Windows 7 Pro (SP1, all updates). VM configuration is 6 CPUs, 8GB RAM. I am seeing high guest and host CPU usage when running Firefox-23.0 in the guest.
When the guest is idle, host CPU is about 17-20%:
When running Chrome in guest (blank page), host CPU is slightly higher (20-25%):
When running Firefox-23.0 in guest (blank page), host CPU is 110% and guest CPU is 16-17%:
Is it possible that Firefox is using a graphics feature that is not handled efficiently by Parallels Tools? How can I figure out what's wrong? (This is a recent development; previously, Firefox was well-behaved.)
Thanks!
Last edited: Aug 19, 2013