Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 9/16/2013 12:51 PM:
Rick Merrill wrote:
I would suspect web page encoding, especially GIF files that repeat.
In SeaMonkey you can
edit/preferences/privacy/images/animated-pages-should-loop
to "once" to stop the GIF files.
Does that /really/ take a lot of CPU???
I think it's more likely advertising crap that's constantly phoning home
for a new banner, and using complex scripts that aren't always as
efficient as you might like. Turn it off with AdBlock Plus or equivalent.
I don't have any trouble with nytimes.com, but I do use ABP.
Or you could do a quick check by disabling scripts on web pages:
Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Scripts & Plugins:
Enable JavaScript for:
[ ] Browser
If that solves it, then the trouble pages have bad scripts and an ad
blocker will help.
Changing the image loop to once did not change the amount of CPU time in
use, so I changed it back to Always.
Disabling scripts did reduce the CPU time significantly, but also
prevented the satellite weather loops from running. I turned scripts on
again, and for now will run the loop only when I'm looking at it;
currently, I've left it running all the time.
I noticed something odd (to me, anyway) on the NY Times home page. The
"X" in the location bar that stops the loading/running of a page is
normally "dim", but every 10-30 seconds will blink red (active). I
assume that means the page is doing something periodically.
I'll give ADP a try.
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