Re: Web Content
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:30:27 +0000
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 11:15 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> What is this process that makes my computer crazy?? How can I avoid
> it?
If you mean the process or processes that seem to suck up a lot of
CPU, AFAIK they come from your browser. Quit the browser and they
stop. What specifically is the problem would depend on the pages you
have open and the extensions you use, but they seem to be associated
with Javascript.
A utility like top or htop will tell you in real time which process is
abusing your CPU. In my case, whenever CPU is up to 100%, the culprit is
always the browser, executing some braindead javascript in an infinite
loop.
If you use firefox (like me), there are many addons out there that
enable/disable javascript on demand, or give you more fine-grained
control. Other browsers probably have something analogous as well.
I generally keep javascript off by default, and turn it on
only when I need it for a particular page. That keeps my (oldish) CPU
usage much more reasonable. Besides, most of the web pages out there
use javascript merely to display ads and other useless cruft and bloat
that just gets in my way of the actual useful content on the page.
HTH, :-)
Marko