On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, ken wrote:

On 09/20/2017 01:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Previously when firefox went catatonic
to the point that I could not even scroll,
its CPU usage had gone to 100%+.
Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space)
or sometimes kswap... has process state D,
uninterruptable sleep.

Any suggestions on how to deal?

I had that problem... and yes, it was some site's page with wild or outright broken javascript. Installed NoScript, a Firefox add-on, and using that, severely limit what javascript can run. Since then I've been good.

From here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
?

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