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Originally Posted by greylove
I get scratchiness, slowdowns, just general chaos.
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Can you describe more exactly what scratchiness looks like? Or is this it (from the second part of your post)?
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When I start writing a message, the scrolling up and down gets all jerky, and the cursor completely disappears. I'll write a word and it won't show up while I'm writing it and then it suddenly shows up a few letters at a time. It is now taking a long time to post a message as well........
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It looks as if you may have lost sight of your post and started over, only to have both attempts show up. Is that another part of the same problem you're describing?
So far this sounds like something on your computer, perhaps something running in the background (JavaScript? A virus?!
) tying up the processor and other resources. If it happens more with some pages/sites than others, that may be because some things on those pages (pictures? ads?) require more processing and cause more of a slowdown.
If it happened to me I'd want to try all of the following:
- Shut down and restart the computer.
- Scan the system for viruses and spyware.
- Find a way to access the troublesome pages from a different computer and see if the problem still shows up.
One of my e-mail providers is a "portal" site that also offers links to news stories. When I open one of their stories, there's so much computer activity while it's loading that for a minute or so I can't even scroll down to start reading the actual story. I gather the site is setting up a lot of processor-intensive ads and stuff. The strategy I've worked out is to click on "Stop" as soon as the scrollbar shows that the page is long enough to contain the story, then scroll down and see what I got.
At one commercial site where I shop pretty regularly I often get a temporary freezeup followed by a notice (from my browser, I guess) about an "unresponsive script". I used to think that meant my system just couldn't handle those scripts but I'm finding that if I click to allow the script to continue awhile, it soon finishes whatever it was doing and I get normal access to the page again. I think those particular scripts may be for the purpose of letting me view enlarged pictures of the product and other "fancy" features that actually come in handy once in a while.