[CentOS] My CentOs 4.1 desktop starts to freez ( non-responsive) with 100% cpu usage

[Ajay Sharma]

mohamed yusuf wrote:
> Thanks Andreas,
> 
> I think you are right. The culprit appears to be
> firefox browser which took about 180 meg of ram. I
> don't know why ? 
> Anyway, I swiched to opera browser and it's ok now

Maybe it's time to drop the profile and start a new one?  Corrupted 
profiles used to screw me up all the time but it hasn't happened in 
quite some time.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

--Ajay