. . . and is there any way I can stop it from happening when I visit? It’s the Wall Street Journal’s site.
I’ve tried adjusting settings on both IE and Firefox to prevent automatic loading of images and Java, and also tried an image blocking add-in on Firefox. To no avail: every time I open this page, my whole computer – not just the browser – slows to a crawl, and if I open multiple tabs, or keep tab open for more than a couple of minutes, my computer becomes nearly unusable. And merely closing the web site doesn’t fix it: the sluggishness persists even after I completely close my browser(s). On my work computer it’s not so bad but for my home computer the only way I can get back to normal is to restart the machine.
I’ve never had this problem with another web site. (Though unless you’re logged in as a subscriber, I’m not sure if you’ll see the same problems on the WSJ’s public site.) What on earth could it be doing, and how do I stop it from doing it?
It seems to me it’s the flash player. I look at my CPU meter and it’s about 17%. When I go to the site, my CPU meter shoots up to 65%. Then when I hit the disable flash button on my browser (I used K-Meleon), it falls back down to 17%.
Using Opera here. The WSJ site used to really put a hit on my browser but not so much anymore. Maybe went away when I upgraded my browser? Huffington Post is another bad one. I think it’s a lot of poorly done Javascript.
Woo hoo, thank you Cugel, and thank you SDMB! (& everyone else who responded.) Tried the above, and it seems to work just as Cugel said. I’ll keep trying it for the next few days, but I’m optimistic now.