[vox-tech] slashdot problem

Bill Broadley bill at broadley.org
Tue Sep 16 19:30:46 PDT 2014


On 09/15/2014 03:37 PM, Richard Harke wrote:
> Lately (a few weeks) I've been having a problem with slashdot. If I
> leave the browser
> tab open, they eventually send down something which causes my laptop to
> burn cpu
> cycles and eventually overheat and shut down. Today I had top running
> when I noticed
> it starting to get hot. I checked top and the cpu usage had jumped to
> over 50%
> I closed the tab with slashdot and cpu usage immediately dropped to 1 or 2%
> I'm running debian wheezy and the browser is chrome. ASUS laptop
> with Intel i7 (4 cores)
> 
> Anybody have any idea whats going on?

Disable flash.




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