On 25-Jun-07 20:32:35, Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:47:43PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
This is with both Firefox 1.04 (2005) on Red Hat 9, and also Mozilla 1.3 (2003) on a SuSE 7.2 installation (so it's not due to anything didgy on a particular machine).
Anyone else can confirm/comment on this observation?
Well, I'm not using such quite obsolete browsers ;) but on firefox 2.0.blah when I open that in a tab it pegs the cpu on my laptop to 100% not really sure why... but it does.
Adam
Thanks Adam. Interesting. On a possibly not unrelated issue, I've been increasingly seeing in recent weeks that many of the newspaper web-pages heave with overlaying advertising stuff.
The Guardian over the last fortnight or so has something which manages to blank out half the list of news items (I suspect this is my Firefox trying to suppress "popups"), once you get down to "UK News" (the top level is fine).
Maybe the Lincoolnshire Echo (which in the past has not been problematic) has started giving room to this garbage? Maybe a Certain Explorer has a secret provision for dealing correctly with this kind of thing, which the web designers cater for?
[And my obsolete browsers at least have the grace to die quickly and quietly, without freezing mt machines :)] ***
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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