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CNN Eating My CPU

Something I noticed recently - on both my home and work computers - is that CNN.com is pegging my CPU.

I noticed this at work today. I usually have at least two Firefox instances open, each with 5-10 tabs open.

Firefox was consuming my CPU.

OK, I closed and restarted Firefox (some memory leak?).

Still bad.

So I began the "scientific process" - close a tab at a time; see what appears to be the culprit.

It's CNN.

Same here at home tonight.

I'm guessing it's a Flash issue, but I'm not certain. But all I have to do is close CNN and my CPU use goes from 98-100% to 10% or so.

I'll monitor, but it's not much of a loss. CNN used to be my fav site for news online, but it has gone downhill dramatically recently.

Just not news.

Doubt me? (As you should.)

View screenshot from now (11/01/2007 9:10pm CDT), below. Look at all the yellow that is NOT news. This is CNN's TOP page. A sweepstakes? Oprah cutting hair?

I thought there were a bunch of wars going on...