[CentOS] firefox and D state

[Michael Hennebry]

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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