24 Sep
2017
24 Sep
'17
8:26 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, ken wrote:
On 09/20/2017 01:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Previously when firefox went catatonic to the point that I could not even scroll, its CPU usage had gone to 100%+. Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space) or sometimes kswap... has process state D, uninterruptable sleep.
Any suggestions on how to deal?
I had that problem... and yes, it was some site's page with wild or outright broken javascript. Installed NoScript, a Firefox add-on, and using that, severely limit what javascript can run. Since then I've been good.
From here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ ?
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