Visiting webpage causes ~hard lock - round 2!

[Prasad H. L.]

2009/8/18 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
> Dr. Diesel writes:
>
>> Please save your work and visit (tech website):
>>
>>
>> <URL:http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1391450&amp;page=13>http://hardf
>> orum.com/showthread.php?t=1391450&page=13
>>
>> Screen freezes, mouse has jerky movement, vt switch fails.
>
> Loads fine for me.

Its probably a javascript going out of hand. The same problem occurred
here as well on
Firefox (3.5.2). I could ssh to the machine and see that 'X' was
taking ~98% CPU...
Probably a plugin like NoScript for firefox might help...

>
>> F11.i368 all updates as of today, nothing good in /var/log/messages
>
> Same here.
>
> This subject is better suited for fedora-list, follow-ups set.

True...