[K12OSN] Flash and TC slowness

[Peter Scheie]

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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