Re: Slow click response
I started experiencing something like that about 3 weeks ago. This computer is a 10 year old Dell, Pentium 4, XP, IE8, 1G ram, and it is NOT quick under any circumstances but still fairly usable.
I was reading a thread here and clicked a link (batterytender.com) and AVG jumped up with a warning that it had blocked an attack by Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit. I checked around and everything seemed OK so I kept surfing. However, I noticed right away that clicking on forums and threads in iboats was taking a lot longer than usual and Task manager was reporting continuous high CPU usage when I had iboats open, whether by itself or with other tabs open. (See screenshots) Closing iboats would drop CPU back to 0 - 5% range.
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There was whole lot of intervening drama I'll skip over for the sake of brevity (needs a Stupid Computer Tricks thread all its own if I get ambitious). Last week I finally downloaded Chrome and got to work learning its ways. First thing I noticed is that Chrome is WAY faster than IE8. A little extra speed is very noticeable on this computer and I was getting more than a little. The other thing is that while I still see occasional continuous high CPU usage with iboats, Chrome doesn't really seem to care. Just keeps humming along.
I used to get a little annoyed at times when folks would jump in with the "get a different browser" answer to computer problems. I guess now I'm one of them.
Incidentally, I think the fact I was opening batterytender when the exploit happened is probably coincidental. I've opened that site several times since with no ill affect. Probably some rogue cookie.
