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,
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Decatur, GA USA
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