Laptop overheating with Quirky 0.1.8 and Opera 10.60

[differential]

Hi

I have used Puppy since version 1.7 and Opera since about v. 3.5 and at the moment am using a Compaq M700 Pentium 3 with 800 MHz and 256 MB ram but with the long awaited Opera 10.60, it overheats.

The difference with Seamonkey is really noticeable in the tray display. At present am staying in Vermont where the temperature is 90F or 32C which does not help.

Any suggestions on this? Is it a matter of biting the bullet and using Seamonkey or going back to an earlier version of Opera?

Have noticed too that Opera 10.52 which i was using until about a week ago froze a lot. Could also have been a sign of overheating.

Thanks
Russell

[8-bit]

Have you installed the CPU frequency scaling utility?
That might help with the overheating.

[Béèm]

Where did you get quirky 0.1.8?

[differential]

Thanks 8-bit, the CPU frequency scaling tool seems to have helped and so has a change in the weather!

As I write though, Opera is taking up between 80 and 90 % of the CPU.

I downloaded Quirky from ibiblio some time back. Would have updated it but am no longer on sufficiently fast broadband.

[Béèm]

Indeed difficult to download newer versions without a fast broadband.
Glad the tool did some good.