Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 12:19:22 CST 2011
Facebook defaults to that kind of behavior but it can be turned off in FB. I do NOT post my location, and that's part of what it's doing. Charlotte Foust On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Darryl > > Even if you don't, some sites you visit may link back to FB (Check for > "like this" or similar). > > If so and if you use WinXP and IE8, you may experience that whenever you > open such site, Windows resource usage at once raises from the few percent > in idle mode to about 30% because of services.exe doing something unknown - > probably some phone-home-to-FB thingy. It may be so aggressive that it eats > every second or third keystroke you do while IE8 has focus. > > A method to kill this misbehaviour is to go to Options .. Security and add > to the "dirty" (non-secure) list of sites: > > *.facebook.com > > > > Bingo! Usage drops to a few percent. > > /gustav > > PS: I think we are 10 people. > > > >>> darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au 15-12-2011 23:21 >>> > I am one of the 9 people on the planet who doesn't use FB at all - > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >