It went away and left the processor idle again, and I am happily browsing like normal once again.
I closed it in desperation–this was freaking me out. After looking in my system monitor program and the task manager, I noticed that my processor was pegged at 100% usage, and Firefox was using 96-99% processor time in Windows task manager. I’ve got a brand new Dell Latitude D520 laptop–that’s a Centrino Duo 1.66ghz dual core. That was really odd as that only happens when I am actually straining my computer.
