On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 19:47 +0100, ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
It is a fairly evil page with lots of animated banners etc, and you are using a fairly old browser in both instances.
It renders without crashing on my copy of Firefox/2.0.0.3 but I did notice it pegged the CPU quite high (it was actually the xorg process that was having a fit so this may be a side effect of running Beryl) as soon as the Hot Jobs scroller loaded.
You could try redirecting jobs.thisislincolnshire.co.uk to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file which won't stop the scroller from loading but will at least give it no content to scroll.
Either that or disable Javascript but this does stuff the layout and functionality of that page somewhat.
Ultimately though I would suggest seeing what the latest version of Firefox is that you can run on your systems..Redhat 9 must be capable of running Firefox 1.5 at the very least and the requirements for even version 2 aren't that outrageous (glibc 2.3.2, XFree86- 3.3.6, gtk+2.0, fontconfig/xft and libstdc++5)