Thanks, Liese, I will show that page to the IT guy. (Gee, wouldn't it be nice if they could diagnose this and not just tell me I have "too many tabs open"?)
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Opening the NYTimes web site made CPU of Firefox go from 1 to (briefly) 48, and then back down to 2. Is that bad? (I didn't install the Flashblock yet.)
I think 'too many tabs open' is the new 'did you try rebooting it?'
Currently I can't get gmail chat to open - but trying to doesn't spike the CPU at all.
Well you definitely want flashblock. Flash ads will kill your bandwidth. Don't know if that is the cause of your problem. But if you don't block flash ads, and the problem is something else it will be tough to diagnose.
Flea, that's normal. was it loading fast?
Nope, that seems pretty normal. Is there anything else showing an active CPU usage percentage when you are experiencing the slowness?
NYT loaded normally, which is to say a bit slower than most sites but not too bad. The machine is not doing the bad hanging right now, since I rebooted it before I started bugging you guys. I will look tomorrow at the usual time, before I reboot.
Yeah, you wanna see what's running during the actual problem time. Let us know then, and we'll see what we can deduce.
Thank you!