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Safari Plug-In Consumed 395% of CPU

24 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Dagny Gromer in apple mac

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mac, os x, plug-in using all cpu, safari plug-in

I was browsing the internet this afternoon, when my cpu menu meters all maxed out, turning red. WTF?, I’m not doing much, only the Safari browser, apple mail, and calendar applications are running. No Photoshop, no Lightroom.

Here’s how to hunt down the cpu hog:

Run activity monitor, sort by % cpu.  This showed that a Safari plug-in was consuming 395% of the system’s cpu. How can this be more than 100%? My iMac has 4 cores, each of which is 100%.  Activity monitor showed the runaway plug-in is npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin.

I killed this process. CPU use dropped to a few percent.

Now to prevent it from happening again, I looked in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/  I found the offender and moved it to the trash. Since this is a system folder, I had to provide an admin password to do this.

To see the plug-ins in your Safari, on the Safari menu click Help and then Installed Plug-ins.

Now you know how to trouble shoot and fix this problem!

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Raven in the Grass

24 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Dagny Gromer in birds, Nikon D600 Photos, Prescott_AZ

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birds, prescott az, raven

Raven in the Grass, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

A raven in the grass. They have been gathering in this spot in the mornings, eating cicadas I think. I wanted to get some photos of these birds but I got rained out. The forecast is for rain and thunderstorms all weekend. That’s good, we can use the moisture.

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