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walterramjet
March 26th, 2016, 07:07 PM
I dont know if its something wrong with my computer or that website. I recently installed an app that posts how much memory is being used by each tab in Firefox 45.0 and it says that "http://www.iflscience.com/space/titans-highest-mountain-found-cassini-spacecraft" was using about 135MB just before everything went gray and no response from mouse or alt-tab or keyboard or anything. This didn't happen before recent upgrade to linux-image-4.2.0-35-generic. Anyway, i dont know if I should complain to the website or here or if some other place, please let me know.

Thank you,
Walt

my computer: ubuntu 15.10
memory 5.8GiB
Processor Intel cor i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz x 8
Graphics Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV 770 (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.6.2)
OS type 64 bit
Disk 731.9 GB

coldraven
March 26th, 2016, 10:22 PM
For me it loaded almost instantly but I had NoScript enabled. When I let NoScript run everything Ghostery reported 10 trackers and uBlock Origin reported five adverts. One of those scripts or adverts is causing you a problem.

ajgreeny
March 26th, 2016, 11:48 PM
Also loaded instantly here, and I also use uBlock-Origin (stopping 10 items in my system) but I do not use no-script.

walterramjet
March 27th, 2016, 05:44 AM
thank you for checking that. i dont know how to block scripts but i will look into it. thanks!

coldraven
March 27th, 2016, 12:56 PM
thank you for checking that. i dont know how to block scripts but i will look into it. thanks!
NoScript is a Firefox add-on. See here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=ss