This is happening with every increasing frequency lately. System response slows to a snail’s pace so I do the three finger salute to being up the Windows Task Manager and some browser pages are showing that they are using 500 megs to 1 gig in system memory!
It’s all kinds of pages doing this internet sale sites, news and magazine sites and these aren’t sketchy sites this is Amazon, and Slate, and Salon, and Huff Post and Sierra Trading Post. It does this browsing on both my work PC and home PC. If I watch the memory use directly with the Task Manager I can see it slowly gobbling ever more memory and I am doing nothing on the pages other than having the page up. Chrome pages can occasionally get big too but IE is by far the worst offender in this.
Is this scripts or what? What’s going on that makes this happen?
Dunno what it is, but it’s been happening to me also in Firefox, for about two weeks.
I reacted the same way – brought up task manager & clicked on the “performance” tab. The graph shows typically ~80% of my resources consistently sucked up just having a page open. There is also a pretty much constant trickle of suspicious but low-level audible hard drive activity.
It also happens on an older version of Firefox on Linux, with the browser completely grayed out for a short time ( not affecting anything else ).
I have a lot of tabs, but it’s nearly always this site.
[ Either it’s some misconfiguration ( it doesn’t affect other vBull sites ) or something to do with advertising providers. I don’t use AdBlock Plus, but use AdvertBan as lighter: even if one doesn’t see the wretched things, they are still trying to load. Then again, most modern sites try to get as many outside processes to load as possible to present one page. ]
More and more website designers and admins take a perverse pleasure in loading up with more and more scripts that don’t actually help the user of the website. HuffPo is one of the worst offenders, but there are plenty of others. Your computer has to deal with each and every one of those scripts.
I’ve seen websites recently that take longer to load using DSL than some sites took using dial-up!