The worst web site of all time?
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working". She was quite right - it is running like a dog with firefox 15.0.1 on Xorg. A little digging shows that whenever it is being displayed on the screen Xorg saturates the CPU core it is on. Click on another browser tab and (when you can catch the poll) as soon as the focus changes Xorg's usage vanishes. There is virtually zero external traffic from the browser, but a fair bit of activity on screen.
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
It's hard to believe but http://msy.com.au has actually improved over the years. But even http://www.myspace.com/ has improved. Here's some others for consideration http://www.5safepoints.com/ http://www.chestertourist.com/morehotels.htm http://www.lingscars.com/ http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html http://hosanna1.com/ http://www.ingenfeld.de/ http://www.arngren.net/ But behold the power and the glory... http://heaven.internetarchaeology.org/heaven.html#bottom Sorry! :) -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Lev Lafayette <lev@levlafayette.com>wrote:
It's hard to believe but http://msy.com.au has actually improved over the years
OMGosh it looks like a geocities flashback, I guess the web "master" is using the wayback machine for inspiration -- Mark "Pockets" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com G-Talk: mark.clohesy@gmail.com - GNU/Linux.. Linux Counter #457297 "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are" "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a V8 station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" "The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers"
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 18:09:13 +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
She was quite right - it is running like a dog with firefox 15.0.1 on Xorg.
Far be it for me to praise any web site, but I don't see any problems at all on this site, neither with firefox (13.0.1) nor with Chrome. It even renders almost correctly. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 18:09:13 +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
She was quite right - it is running like a dog with firefox 15.0.1 on Xorg.
Far be it for me to praise any web site, but I don't see any problems at all on this site, neither with firefox (13.0.1) nor with Chrome. It even renders almost correctly.
There was once (upon a time) a website that rendered fine in all my browsers, but in firefox, on my laptop with intel video card, caused the whole of X to become really slow. Switching to different virtual pages in FVWM was darned difficult. On my nvidia based machines (or was it vice-versa?), no problems. -- Tim Connors
On 18/09/12 6:09 PM, Allan Duncan wrote:
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
It loaded fine for me, but that was without javascript (via NoScript). My candidate for most annoying website is: http://www.aph.gov.au/ I mean, really, when I want to download a PDF I expect it to be .pdf not .aspx. *Sigh* Regards, Ben
On 27/09/12 19:11, Ben McGinnes wrote:
On 18/09/12 6:09 PM, Allan Duncan wrote:
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
It loaded fine for me, but that was without javascript (via NoScript).
My candidate for most annoying website is: http://www.aph.gov.au/
I mean, really, when I want to download a PDF I expect it to be .pdf not .aspx. *Sigh*
I haven't had the time to fully track the cause of my glitch, but I can reboot the box in question to Fedora 17 64-bit instead of its normal F14 32-bit. The /home and user is common. F17's instance runs the web page OK, so it is down to the interaction of the browser (presumably its xulrunner rendering engine) and Xorg (where top says all the CPU time is spent). The same version of xulrunner is used, but the F17 version has passed through Redhat's rpm massaging. Sort of points at Xorg in some wierd fashion.
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Tim Connors