As you might expect, it was a false alarm.

Post #330,274 by Another Scott 7/25/10 10:48:38 PM Reply	As you might expect, it was a false alarm. I used SpyBot Search & Destroy to look at the things that were being started automatically. Nothing seemed amiss, but I disabled a bunch of stuff anyway. (It's a very handy little program and well worth a few bucks donation.) I rebooted, and started Firefox with the 72 tabs I previously had open. After everything loaded and I saw no more action on the progress indicators on the tabs, I saw the 200 kB/s activity start up again. So, I started closing tabs. What do you know. The BP underwater cameras tab has movies that aren't being blocked by FlashBlock anymore. And what do you know, lots of things are happening with no indication on the tab that anything's happening. http://www.bp.com/se...contentId=7063636 Yup. Closing that makes my network activity drop. Sorry for the false alarm. Thanks for the help. <goes away muttering to himself...> Cheers, Scott.
Post #330,277 by Ashton 7/26/10 1:53:34 AM Reply	Yeah.. that rotating thingi appears oblivious to some common actions, like ^&#@% flash stuff and any # of AD-plague objects (as, here -- on my local Weather Underground tab, when one of their ads ran amok.) Not even OS X can counter the Ad-mindlessness. Well, not All of that. (Only 72 tabs open? Piker!) Have I mentioned lately how much I Like my bulletproof iMac?? OK: I Like my bulletproof iMac!
Post #330,284 by boxley 7/26/10 9:15:53 AM Reply	72 tabs? when you can see at most 10 at a whack?
Post #330,288 by Another Scott 7/26/10 9:54:22 AM Reply	Something like that. Ashton has/had his 20 GB bookmarks; I have my eleventy-seven tabs. Several us are a bit quirky about this web stuff. :-) In my case, I'll start on something and think about it for a while, but not finish it till much later. Having the tab stick around is a convenient reminder. There's an add-on that I probably should use more, but haven't gotten used to it enough to make it routine. Naturally, it's called "TooManyTabs" - https://addons.mozil...refox/addon/9429/ Cheers, Scott.
Post #330,291 by folkert 7/26/10 10:16:00 AM 7/26/10 10:16:43 AM Reply	I ended up having firefox get... killed (all instances from every user I use (3)) because of XUL-Runner. Bleah... all lower memory was allocated by aborted processes and couldn't be cleared. So, only thing to do was a reboot. And It wasn't a real reboot... it just loaded the new kernel and started from there. Edited by folkert July 26, 2010, 10:16:43 AM EDT Expand All History

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