On 06/29/2017 12:24 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 06/28/2017 10:15 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> <...> >> >> 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? > This is an old issue that pops up in Web 2.0-ish winky blink sites with > lots of java/flash/javascript and the occasional memory leak Often a > bit of FF stays in memory and gets lost and you'll just have to kill it > with extreme prejudice. FF can and will suck up memory and CPU cycles.
Now that you mention it, I recall something about this from several years ago. > If you linked in from another site to youtube, I doubt there was a > nefarious payload - Google would not want the bad press. The issue most > likely was either flash, or some other site heap full of javascript > embedded advertisements. I did get there from another site. I had the same thought about Google being cautious about bad press. Thanks for the reply. I'm breathing a little easier now. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
