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Joined: 09 Feb 2004, 09:21
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 Firefox major slowdown Using Firefox, something is frequently (yet intermittently - not ALWAYS) causing a major CPU hit here at the home page of PiC - 50% CPU (on a gajillion GHz P4). Kill off the PiC tab and CPU returns to normal.
Maybe Flash-ad based?
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| 29 Aug 2007, 05:22 |
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Joined: 09 Jan 1999, 07:08
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Location: San Diego, CA
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Is there a specific page or section of the site that causes this behavior?
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| 04 Sep 2007, 11:18 |
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Joined: 09 Feb 2004, 09:21
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Home page - I think it's a Verizon ad.
How come your posts says \"Posted: 04 Sep 2007 07:18 pm\" when I am posting this reply at 3:56PM?
You in Australia?
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| 04 Sep 2007, 12:01 |
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I will look into it. Let me know if it continues to be an issue.
The forum can localize the time to your own time zone, it is selectable in the forum prefs. I think it lists all times as GMT by default, thus the time you are seeing. Mine list as the correct time for my zone, PST.
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| 04 Sep 2007, 12:11 |
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Joined: 09 Feb 2004, 09:21
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> ...Let me know if it continues to be an issue...
Major problem this morning - actually had to kill off Firefox using task manager due to the ads on PiC's home page - either the Verizon one or some other Flash-based.
I can STOP the \"Play\" and \"Loop\" for those ads and continue to be a Happy Camper, BTW, so I'm pretty sure they're causing this very significant problem.
BTW, part II, this might be a known problem with Firefox and Flash...
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| 05 Sep 2007, 05:23 |
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Joined: 17 Jan 2002, 06:18
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I was about to pipe in saying that I am not experiencing the problem. However, I then remembered that I have two Foxfire Add-Ons that are midigating this issue: You could look into these as a possible work around; but better would be that it was fixed for everyone.
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| 05 Sep 2007, 10:06 |
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Joined: 06 Feb 2006, 02:56
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Can't say I've ever experienced this problem...
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| 05 Sep 2007, 10:36 |
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Joined: 09 Feb 2004, 09:21
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Hmmm...I'm gonna have to look into that one - maybe opening PIC in an IE Tab (that's what it does, right?) would solve this particular problem. There is no slowdown/freeze using IE instead of Firefox.
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| 05 Sep 2007, 16:49 |
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Joined: 14 Aug 2006, 19:32
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I'm not having a problem with Firefox.
I'm running 1.5.0.12 in both WinDohsXP and Ubuntu6.06
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| 05 Sep 2007, 22:58 |
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Joined: 09 Feb 2004, 09:21
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As a shortterm fix - maybe permanent if I'm too lazy - I just decided to use IE for PalmInfocenter reading and Firefox for pretty much everywhere else. Seems to work fine at this moment of the day (already had to kill off Firefox twice while attempting to catch up on Comment reading here - my usual manner s to opena tab with each unread thread - that, of course, brings up the Verizon Flash ad in each tab - sometimes I get away with that, this morning not at all. As noted way above, I can stop that Flash ad from playing and all is well - if I get to it in time...).
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| 06 Sep 2007, 02:32 |
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