[K12OSN] Flash and TC slowness
Peter Scheie
peter at scheie.homedns.org
Tue Sep 7 14:35:33 UTC 2010
You might try setting the default homepage to www.google.com/m as this seems to
dispense with all the javascript bells & whistles.
Peter
j.w. thomas wrote:
> Barry Cisna wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Thanks to all that responded here. I do not mean to make such a big
>> deal out of a 'one day' thing via
>> Google. The point is, if this would have been on an actual school day for
>> example,my phone would have been ringing non-stop,"something is wrong
>> with these PC's" etc,etc...
>> As Google is set as the home page on all severs of course,:-).
>> And at that point it would take a while to decipher what was actually
>> taking down the server/TC's.
>> I need to win the lottery!
>>
>
> Looks like it's not going to be a one-day thing. Today they are
> animating some bouncy balls. It took 91% of my laptop's hefty CPU, so I
> cannot imagine what it is going to do to a TC.
>
> I have the noscript Firefox plugin installed. It prevents scripts from
> running on unapproved sites. I just added google to that list, and the
> page loads just fine with no perceptible hit on CPU performance.
>
> The problem with noscript is that there doesn't seem to be a way to make
> it default to "allow any site except the ones I disable" which means
> that almost nothing will work by default (so many sites rely on java/JS
> these days). But maybe noscript can serve as a starting point.
>
> For more info on Google's home page shenaningans, see these stories:
> http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10004614.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/09/07/129695020/google-s-logo-turns-to-bouncing-balls-for-anniversary?ft=1&f=1001
>
>
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