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Caveman42
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Hi there. Has anyone else had this problem for the last week or 2?
When I have RPGDot's site open, Firefox is using 99% of my CPU, and often stops responding.
I seem to have the same problem with Internet Explorer.
I suspect it's the Guild Wars ads, but I'm not sure.
I actually had to kill and restart Firefox a few times to get far enough to Register and post this message.
I've taken RPGDot off my List of links I check daily, but I'd rather fix my problem and get it back, seeing as I like the content.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Update: I just got closer to pinpointing the problem. I disabled Javascript in my options menu. Now the site works fine, and I don't get the Guild Wars ad, or any ad for that matter.
But I don't necessarily want to keep Javascript turned off, in case some site has a useful feature using Javascript.
Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:04 am
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Deg
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Yes these adds are really getting out of hand. Firefox just gives up and IE barely manages to holdon, not to mention the loadtimes every time you hit a page with 2 big flashmovies, it slows down the whole experience of this site considerably. There are a number of things that you can do.

- Just block their addserver, 82.133.85.64 at the moment, if you have a proxy or an other way todo that.
- Goto this site for a no software solution.
- Goto this site for a piece of software that sets up a proxy on your computer. They have a list of adservers that gets maintained by all their users and its free.

hope that helps
Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:44 am
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Sem
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I have no problem with the adds at all, but I can imagine that not-so-high-end systems can have problems with them.
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Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:52 am
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TrD
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Get adblock for firefox:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

then disable all the adds that you dont want.
Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:39 pm
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Caveman42
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Thanks for the advice all! Much appreciated.

I'm now using adblock.

After trying a few times I finally got to block the ads without firefox freezing.

Now it's working fine.

It's disappointing though. I'm actually happy for websites to have ads. People have to make a living, and I understand that.

But those ads were ridiculous. I know my computer ain't exactly state of the art, but I can play Morrowind, Vampire: Bloodlines, KOTOR 2, and plenty of other games fine. But my computer's just not powerful enough to view a website about RPGs!

Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:15 pm
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Unfortunately RPGDot has no control over the ads. Jolt stays out of content-related questions, but selling the ad space is their business.

For Opera users:
It seems Opera 8 works much faster with RPGDot than Opera7. Opera also has problems with the Guild Wars ad, though. Disable the plug-ins and it´s okay.
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Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:55 pm
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Dhruin
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It's not the power of your computer. I have tested this with fairly state-of-the-art systems - Firefox has serious issues and IE does much better - but they all exhibit much higher CPU utilisation than I would like. Unfortunately, I can't find any hard data about problems with the Flash plugin.
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Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:27 pm
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elkston
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Its a known Firefox bug. Some Flash ads will cause Firefox to exhibit 99% CPU under Windows XP. I think they are looking into it. For the meantime I have used AdBlock to get by this.
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Post Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:38 pm
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Dhruin
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Any links at all Elkston? I posted on the Mozillazine support forums and just got "use AdBlock" replies, rather than any authoritative data about the problem.
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Post Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:24 am
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solidsnake9415
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i have a question how can i get this villege dweller off of my title, is it a rank or what?
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Post Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:17 pm
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Mercenary
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@solidsnake

Yea, its a title. It is changed by posts. Read the FAQ.
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Post Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:36 pm
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Danicek
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quote:
Originally posted by Dhruin
Any links at all Elkston? I posted on the Mozillazine support forums and just got "use AdBlock" replies, rather than any authoritative data about the problem.


Actually I think there are/was more than one 95 - 99% CPU usage problem/bug in Firefox. Some of them are solved, some are not.
If you want to study the problem in depth or even participate on it's solution :], I suggest to go to http://www.mozilla.org and search for something like

99 CPU firefox

And you will get a lot matches :].
Post Thu May 12, 2005 8:24 am
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Chekote
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I only ever had a problem with the Guildwars ads.
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