Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:29:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent:
> >
> > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za
> >
> > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so
> > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs
> > Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive.
> >
> > I've tried various tricks to see what is going on when it does this,
> > including strace, to no avail. I have a hunch this started when I
> > installed konq- plugins, I have these enabled:
> >
> > Adblock
> > bookmarklets
> > Crashes Monitor
> > KTHML settings
> > Konqueror feed icon
> > Search bar
> > translate
> > User Agent Changer
> > Web Archiver
> >
> > My next step is to start the laborious process of disabling them one by
> > one to see if it makes a difference. Meanwhile, does anyone have
> > suggestions for clever trouble-shooting techniques to apply here?
> >
> > I doubt anyone will have a solution to hand, just some pointers to likely
> > things to check is all I'm after at this stage.
>
> without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about
> javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a
> tremendous amount of cpu load.

No flash, but there is a usual amount of animated gifs and javascript. Nothing 
over the top, just normal stuff for a forum. And this is the only forum of 
many where this happens.

I've disabled js for the domain, I'll run it for a few days and see what 
happens. I fear konqueror may go the way of amarok, and be replaced by rekong.

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com