Reason for High disk/cpu Activity
I want to use Safari on Windows, really I do, but the excessive CPU usage and disk activity drives me crazy. Even with Safari sitting at a blank window, I can hear the hard drive chattering away, and watch the CPU activity sit anywhere from 10 to 30%. So I launched the Process Monitor application from Sysinternals.com and watched Safari. And I found out what it's doing. Safari constantly reads the file:
C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\PageIcon.png
Not a couple of times, but hundred of thousands of times. In the 10 minutes or so I watched, that file was read almost 150,000 times! And as near as I can tell, it's for the little page icon, for the "Display a menu for the current page" button next to the search box. Turning off the toolbar makes the reads go away, but then there's no address bar. Trying to customize the toolbar to get rid of that button doesn't work - sure you can drag it off, and watch the little "poof", but those two buttons (including the gear), just come back.
Yes, I sent a bug report to Apple, but I doubt anything will be done. Why in the world would it need to read that file so many times???
Sorry Safari, I guess I'm sticking with Firefox.
C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\PageIcon.png
Not a couple of times, but hundred of thousands of times. In the 10 minutes or so I watched, that file was read almost 150,000 times! And as near as I can tell, it's for the little page icon, for the "Display a menu for the current page" button next to the search box. Turning off the toolbar makes the reads go away, but then there's no address bar. Trying to customize the toolbar to get rid of that button doesn't work - sure you can drag it off, and watch the little "poof", but those two buttons (including the gear), just come back.
Yes, I sent a bug report to Apple, but I doubt anything will be done. Why in the world would it need to read that file so many times???
Sorry Safari, I guess I'm sticking with Firefox.
Windows XP Pro
