This afternoon I had occasion to visit three YouTube pages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5PJ0JZUhgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVa_nkU0j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBGnUSrjQo
The first two are old Disney cartoons, and the third is a collection of German Shepherd videos that I got to by following click bait from a news site. Later in the afternoon Firefox was very slow to respond, and then other programs were affected -- ran slowly, too. I'm guessing one of these links caused the problem. I looked at top and saw Firefox spending a lot of time near the top. Somewhere else I saw that Firefox was looking at a YouTube site. I don't remember what tool showed that to me and, sadly, I didn't write down which site was referenced. I assume there's a log somewhere I could look at to find out which one, but that's currently outside my skill set. The thing is, I had closed the Firefox tabs with those things on them, and left Firefox on about:blank. So, Firefox should not have been running near the top in top. I tried closing Firefox, but it wouldn't respond to the mouse click. At that point I ran ps ax | grep firefox, found the process number, and killed it. After a couple of seconds it closed. I've been out for the evening and have restarted Firefox. It appears to be running normally now. The important question is, how does a website take so much control of Firefox, and do I need to be looking for any other bad side effects? -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
