On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Robert Ullmann rlullmann@gmail.com wrote:
Something bad happened, having to do with the "legend" junk add to RC and similar pages. Firefox will go compute bound (or very nearly) as long as the page is open, even if hours.
It isn't java/javascript (first suspect ;-), turning them off has no effect. It doesn't quite happen with 50 changes shown, always happens with 100 or more. Long pages without the cruft (eg. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/93.152.180.56 ) don't cause the problem.
WinXP updated to current, FF at 3.5.1 and 3.5.2.
I don't see what could cause this. I can't reproduce on Firefox 3.0.12 on RHEL 5. Does it happen on a fresh profile or on other machines? Does it go away if you hide some things with CSS? If so, what rules make it stop?
Is there a way to turn that added stuff off? It is pure noise, not helpful at all. (yes, css display:none, but must everyone do that?)
No, this is not something that justifies a user preference. It's one line and some tooltips. If it's actually causing significant problems for some users, most likely we'd just remove it altogether (and report a bug to Mozilla if appropriate).