firefox and cnn?

[taharka]

How do,

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:10 -0400, tomhorsley at 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?

Used to see it on cnn.com & other various sites. Turned out to be
javascript running on those sites.Try this, download/install the
noscript extension from here; www.noscript.net & try cnn.com again to
see if the problem goes away ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.