Stephen Brooks wrote:
> Frank Peelo wrote:
>>> My wife's mobile phone account is with Vodafone. They allow a certain
>> number of free texts on every month's bill, and these can be sent from
>> their website.
>>>> Only, it's manky slow. As in, when that web page is being shown,
>> there's a 10 second delay between trying to scroll down with the mouse
>> and anything actually happening. And you need a good memory to type in
>> the text message.
...
>> There's an evil little spinning javascript that's checking message
> length. Pegs cpu when you're on that page and slows everything down
> (guess their dev team haven't heard of setInterval callbacks...). It's
> slightly sluggish on my current machine but nothing like a 10 second
> lag. (Ubuntu 7.10 on a 3Hz P4 with HT)
I guess there's a G missing from your CPU speed... that would make your
PC at least 3 times faster than mine, which might explain the difference.
Is there any way to reduce the share of CPU that Javascript gets,
without knocking Firefox as well? Or is Javascript interpreted by
Firefox itself -- in which case, letting Javascript take over like this
would be a Firefox bug.
Frank
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