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way to freeze or stop a page?

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njem

Flightless Bird
Is there a way to stop a page from running anything, just become
static. I often have tabs I want to come back to and leave open. But
some have rotating ads, scrolling lists, and other processes that eat
cpu time. Is there a way to just stop a page and let it sit there
static?

Or...I can look in task manager and see many iexplore listings,
apparently one for each tab. Some eat a lot more time or memory than
others. Is there a way to tell which listing goes with which tab?

Thanks
 
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Stionmy

Flightless Bird
Is there a way to stop a page from running anything, just become
static. I often have tabs I want to come back to and leave open. But
some have rotating ads, scrolling lists, and other processes that eat
cpu time. Is there a way to just stop a page and let it sit there
static?

Or...I can look in task manager and see many iexplore listings,
apparently one for each tab. Some eat a lot more time or memory than
others. Is there a way to tell which listing goes with which tab?

Thanks

I also hate that rotating ads. Hope anybody can find a solution.
Joyhong
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; WinXP 64-bit SP2;
Vista SP1; Vista 64-bit SP2; Win7; Win7 64-bit) as well as your IE version
when posting in an IE-specific forum or newsgroup. Please do so in your next
reply.

njem wrote:
> Is there a way to stop a page from running anything, just become
> static. I often have tabs I want to come back to and leave open. But
> some have rotating ads, scrolling lists, and other processes that eat
> cpu time. Is there a way to just stop a page and let it sit there
> static?
>
> Or...I can look in task manager and see many iexplore listings,
> apparently one for each tab. Some eat a lot more time or memory than
> others. Is there a way to tell which listing goes with which tab?
>
> Thanks
 
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njem

Flightless Bird
On Apr 16, 11:09 am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; WinXP 64-bit SP2;
> Vista SP1; Vista 64-bit SP2; Win7; Win7 64-bit) as well as your IE version
> when posting in an IE-specific forum or newsgroup. Please do so in your next
> reply.


Okay. Win7 32-bit, IE8, all up-to-date. Since you asked for the info I
assume you have some suggestion on the issue? It is not so much
animations that I want to stop as it is things that continuously run
and eat processor time. Sometimes those running items are exactly what
you want, a running stock ticker or some such. But even when it's
something I want I'd like to stop it from running all the time and I
will then manually refresh it if I need an updated view. Or,
secondarily, to know when certain pages hog absurd amounts of memory
so I can know to close or avoid them.

Thanks
 
P

PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Uninstall Flash (or disable it) & all should be well (unless a page is coded
to automatically refresh every XX minutes, in which case you'd have to work
Offline).

njem wrote:
> On Apr 16, 11:09 am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; WinXP 64-bit
>> SP2;
>> Vista SP1; Vista 64-bit SP2; Win7; Win7 64-bit) as well as your IE
>> version
>> when posting in an IE-specific forum or newsgroup. Please do so in your
>> next reply.

>
> Okay. Win7 32-bit, IE8, all up-to-date. Since you asked for the info I
> assume you have some suggestion on the issue? It is not so much
> animations that I want to stop as it is things that continuously run
> and eat processor time. Sometimes those running items are exactly what
> you want, a running stock ticker or some such. But even when it's
> something I want I'd like to stop it from running all the time and I
> will then manually refresh it if I need an updated view. Or,
> secondarily, to know when certain pages hog absurd amounts of memory
> so I can know to close or avoid them.
>
> Thanks
 
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Jeff Strickland

Flightless Bird
"njem" <njem@q.com> wrote in message
news:c743cb88-e4c2-442d-9cab-64101327b9e4@b23g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Is there a way to stop a page from running anything, just become
> static. I often have tabs I want to come back to and leave open. But
> some have rotating ads, scrolling lists, and other processes that eat
> cpu time. Is there a way to just stop a page and let it sit there
> static?
>
> Or...I can look in task manager and see many iexplore listings,
> apparently one for each tab. Some eat a lot more time or memory than
> others. Is there a way to tell which listing goes with which tab?
>
> Thanks



See if TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS>GENERAL TAB, Settings, Never, does the trick.

You will be forced to click the Refresh Button to get anything new on a
page, and I think you will find this to be annoying, but it should solve the
problem you think you have.


The Settings Button has 4 radiobuttons that you can choose from, my guess is
that you have Automatic selected. I have my machine look for updates when I
visit a page -- I assume it does not look for updates when I am not
visiting, or when I am but have not left and come back or clicked Refresh.
Perhaps this setting will work for you instead of Never. But if you have
selected Automatic, then this could be your issue.

I'm not sure that IE eating resources is your problem though because this is
all done through timeslice management. While the memory number may be large,
the timeslice is very short, and the impact on your life should be very
minimal.

You have not told us what your OS is, what the system resources are, which
version of IE you are using, or any number of other crucial details, but I
going to guess that you have insufficient memory that's slowing you down.
 
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njem

Flightless Bird
See my response to Pa Bear


On Apr 16, 12:45 pm, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> See if TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS>GENERAL TAB, Settings, Never, does the trick.
>
> You will be forced to click the Refresh Button to get anything new on a
> page, and I think you will find this to be annoying, but it should solve the
> problem you think you have.
>
> The Settings Button has 4 radiobuttons that you can choose from, my guessis
> that you have Automatic selected. I have my machine look for updates whenI
> visit a page -- I assume it does not look for updates when I am not
> visiting, or when I am but have not left and come back or clicked Refresh..
> Perhaps this setting will work for you instead of Never. But if you have
> selected Automatic, then this could be your issue.
>
> I'm not sure that IE eating resources is your problem though because thisis
> all done through timeslice management. While the memory number may be large,
> the timeslice is very short, and the impact on your life should be very
> minimal.
 
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njem

Flightless Bird
On Apr 16, 12:10 pm, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uninstall Flash (or disable it) & all should be well (unless a page is coded
> to automatically refresh every XX minutes, in which case you'd have to work
> Offline).


In response to your Flash suggestion and Jeff Stickland's suggestions:

The problem mostly seems to be pages that run some kind of ongoing
process that when poorly done eat a lot of time. It appears it's not
Flash or java script. To explain:

Two excellent examples, one is easy to check, one is not:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13
This is the site for the NPR radio show Fresh Aire. Just recently they
added a regularly scrolling list of tweets to their tweet page. Every
time it scrolls it spikes cpu to about 80-90%. Averages out to 10% of
cpu time for this one page. I've run into one other page, forget where
now, that had smooth continuous scrolling of such a list and it ate
100% of cpu time.
The other example is any page for the Arizona Republic web site
azrepublic.com. Some pages run scripts and about once a week some page
apparently has a bad script and it runs for about 5 minutes till IE
pops up a msg that a script on the page is running slow and should it
be stopped. Until that msg pops up the page will hog 100% of cpu time.

Memory shows about 25% or 1/2 gig of physical memory is still
available.

This NPR scrolling list is not flash or java script. Turned them both
off, went to the page, and the scrolling happens anyway.

Amazingly as a test I went to a web tv page (CBS) and watched a hi-res
(that is not grainy like youtube) about 640x480 video and flash and
the IE process for the page only ate about 20% of cpu between the two
of them. And I use flash for news videos, instructional videos, web
tv, so I don't think I'll turn it off. This NPR site also has a flash
ad, but turning off flash so it's a static ad only reduces cpu time
less than 1%.

Turning off page refresh doesn't help either. Set it to never, went
back to the NPR page and, out of cache, the flash ad and the dreaded
scrolling list did their thing and ate up the same cpu time.

So that's my story. When I find cpu is way busier than it has reason
to be I want to be able to know which page, which tab, is doing it and
stop it. Or even if I can't tell which, I'll just go to each tab and
stop it (if I could) till I find the biggest culprit. Just stop, do
nothing, sit there and look pretty like a screen shot. I can press F5
when I want to check if anything's new. There has GOT to be a way to
do that. No?

Thanks
Tom
 
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