Thanks, PJ. I use an ad blocker, too. I may have white listed the Atlantic site.
> On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:12 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Malformed adverts. I've had web pages with such horrible scripts that they > hang the web browser and require a restart. That's the main reason I've > employed an ad blocker. I can ignore the ads. > > > On 7/19/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> Recently—a day or two ago—I noticed that my MacBook Air was emitting a >> low-pitched hissing sound, as if a fan were running. I first noticed this >> when I had been processing photos in Lightroom for a while. But I’m >> experiencing it now and all I have open are Safari and Mail. >> >> I ran Activity Monitor and found two tasks that were using a high percentage >> of CPU. One was a kernel task. The other showed the web address of The >> Atlantic Magazine, which I had open at the time. The percent of CPU it was >> using ranged between the mid-50s and the mid-90s. >> >> I killed that process, the Atlantic page was reloaded, and the fan noise has >> stopped. Why would a web page use so much processor capacity? >> >> Thanks and apologies for being so wildly off-topic, >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> >> "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." >> >> - Amos Oz >> >> > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
