On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When I leave Firefox on certain web pages (WSJ Online for example), my >> processor monitor widget maxes out and the CPU cooling fan goes nuts >> (laptop). Close said page and system reverts to a lesser activity. >> Just how does one monitor what the browser is doing? Need to reinstall >> the DNS diversion of the ad loaders. > > It's likely some Javascript or Flash. You might try Firebug and YSlow > to more easily detect the problem. > > I'd blame Rupert Murdoch myself. > > > -- > Greg Donald > http://destiney.com/ > > > >
I'd bet it's Flash. I've installed FlashBlock [0] on all of my workstations. It's really helped my older laptop cope with life. If I leave a page with Flash open, things start to run pretty hot. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
