Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Dec 17 05:34:24 CST 2011
Hi Charlotte and John You missed that I wrote "whenever you open such site". That's all. No login is needed (or done). This is a WinXP/IE8 combo issue. I don't see it with Vista/IE9. /gustav >>> charlotte.foust at gmail.com 16-12-2011 19:19 >>> 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 -