Bill Davidsen wrote:
Ray_Net wrote:
Jim Taylor wrote, On 28/05/2012 01:18:
sean nathan wrote:
is there something going on with the mozilla.org servers that would
cause m to have an incessantly spininng cursor when connected to this
newsgroup?
sean
It's not the servers, it's a bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727414
Where we can use a work-around:
Under about:config put ui.use_activity_cursor false
I wouldn't call that a work-around, it disables the cursor function to tell you
when things are (still) happening. If you want a work-around tap the ESC key
which may actually stop the background activity causing the cursor spin. Since
that make the CPU usage go down, at least in Linux, I assume that the real issue
is that some background activity is still running a loop checking if something
is complete and sleeping if it isn't.
I would rather have the activity notification present and stop the background
activity manually when I see something running, as opposed to selecting an
option which amounts to "something undesirable is happening, I won't look."
Generally in computing ignorance is not bliss.
After checking this problem a bit, it actually may be a server issue, in that
4-5 other servers I visit which have lots of unread articles don't show this
behavior. The cursor spin briefly while the network activity indicator is on,
then stops without intervention on most other servers other than mozilla servers.
I shall investigate more, but I post now so people can see if this matches their
observations.
--
Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com>
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taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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