Re: firefox and cnn?

[oldman <talbotscott cox net>]

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tomhorsley adelphia net 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?
> 
It is apparently one of the scripts being run on the page as using the
noscript plug-in allows me to view the page (no I haven't tried to watch
a video or anything yet.  need someone to test this with all other
browsers and t a message to CNNs IT guys.

Scott
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