so, iceweasel is being a resource hungry pos (and this just in: winter should be cold this year...)
but when i kill iceweasel, xfce4-xkb-plugin starts driving cpu up. now this isnt one of my slower machines, its one of the faster ones. i kill xfce4-xkb-plugin and it respawns. i move it to another folder and kill it, and things are back as they should be.
i dont even know what xfce4-xkb-plugin does. xkb-- is that keyboard shortcuts, or layouts?
either way, im happy without it. i dont even know what the bug is. if anyone else wants to speculate too, thats fine by me. (i think theyre in on it together, somehow...)