How do, On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:10 -0400, tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've got firefox 1.5.0.7 on my i386 Fedora Core 5 box with all latest updates installed. > > Whenever I visit the cnn.com homepage, the CPU usage on firefox-bin jumps to 95% > and stays there as long as I'm on the homepage. > > Looking at strace, I see it doing lots of gettimeofday(), poll(), and read() calls > (the read always fails). > > Anyone else seen this? Any easy way to find out if it is running inside some plugin? Used to see it on cnn.com & other various sites. Turned out to be javascript running on those sites.Try this, download/install the noscript extension from here; www.noscript.net & try cnn.com again to see if the problem goes away ;-) taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
