sorry to hear that. it's probably some of ad code loading, i'm sorry to say. the site is much faster when you have a premium membership because you don't have the ads.
Chess.com is devouring my CPU
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I suspected that was the case. I think it may be that some of the flash ad code is inefficient because it only happens for certain pages and especially with certain adds. The weird thing is that certain pages seem to be worse no matter what ads are running!
Rereading your post, I think you may be thinking it is a network issue, but I can tell you it is when the page is fully loaded and network activity has dropped to a negligible level.
Feb 17, 2010
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Vlm2010 wrote:
Rereading your post, I think you may be thinking it is a network issue, but I can tell you it is when the page is fully loaded and network activity has dropped to a negligible level.
right. either way i strongly suspect an ad. you could try a month of gold and see if it makes a difference?
I may upgrade at some point. Busy with stuff at the moment though and a premium membership would largely get wasted.
Feb 18, 2010
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erik wrote:
sorry to hear that. it's probably some of ad code loading, i'm sorry to say. the site is much faster when you have a premium membership because you don't have the ads.
awesome
Feb 18, 2010
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Vlm2010 wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem?
It doesn't happen on every page here, but some pages must be running scripts that are eating up a huge percentage of my available processing power.
Let me guess. It happens only when you close a tab or leave a page (clicking to an inside or outside link both included), it takes 5~10 seconds and completely freezes your browser, making it "not responding". It's been adressed here, and apparently there's nothing that can be done about it except no script, which seems to block all scripts on the entire web unless you allow them manually.
philidor_position wrote:
Vlm2010 wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem?
It doesn't happen on every page here, but some pages must be running scripts that are eating up a huge percentage of my available processing power.
Let me guess. It happens only when you close a tab or leave a page (clicking to an inside or outside link both included), it takes 5~10 seconds and completely freezes your browser, making it "not responding". It's been adressed here, and apparently there's nothing that can be done about it except no script, which seems to block all scripts on the entire web unless you allow them manually.
I haven't had the error message that you posted, and luckily I haven't had Firefox freeze, but some pages here will take my processor utilization to 90%+ and slow everything on my system to a crawl. Even when I navigate to another page the slowdown may persist.
I assume it may be ad scripting, but I don't know for sure.
RainbowRising wrote:
give him a free weeks worth of gold to see if it is the problem Erik!
I like the way you think sir. You have a very logical mind!
Feb 18, 2010
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Vlm2010 wrote:
philidor_position wrote:
Vlm2010 wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem?
It doesn't happen on every page here, but some pages must be running scripts that are eating up a huge percentage of my available processing power.
Let me guess. It happens only when you close a tab or leave a page (clicking to an inside or outside link both included), it takes 5~10 seconds and completely freezes your browser, making it "not responding". It's been adressed here, and apparently there's nothing that can be done about it except no script, which seems to block all scripts on the entire web unless you allow them manually.
I haven't had the error message that you posted, and luckily I haven't had Firefox freeze, but some pages here will take my processor utilization to 90%+ and slow everything on my system to a crawl. Even when I navigate to another page the slowdown may persist.
I assume it may be ad scripting, but I don't know for sure.
Hmm. Normally ads shouldn't have such power (90% CPU usage), maybe you should take your computer to a doctor. 
philidor_position wrote:
Hmm. Normally ads shouldn't have such power (90% CPU usage), maybe you should take your computer to a doctor.
If anything I may just reinstall my OS. But it definitely seems to have some connection to chess.com and possibly the ads here.
I surf one site and then another and everything is kosher. Then I come here and I run into problems. Maybe it is Meebo? I really don't know.
ADDED. It is definitely the Firefox process on my system though.
Is anyone else having this problem?
It doesn't happen on every page here, but some pages must be running scripts that are eating up a huge percentage of my available processing power.