A new FF.net slow down, they're running a new scrip of this address: ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.4.min.js
So there's a Microsoft server getting hammered to the point that Safari just skips it and tells ya that it did, Firefox eventually skips it silently. Don't know how IE's handling as I never use IE to access FF.net.
EDIT:
I chucked that address into noscript and blocked it. It removed the slowdown, but I appear to have managed to break a large number of page functions by doing so. Meaning no more tabs on Author pages, no more adjusting the text readablity, and who knows what else. I think I best unblock it.
EDIT2:
Ayep, unblocking it fixed it. Going by the info here: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery it appears that someone in development chose to use a one of the three known free-to-all public hosted copy of that script. Bad form that, as there should be a copy on the local servers. Especially if you've made it essential for all the basic site operations.
--Rod.H
So there's a Microsoft server getting hammered to the point that Safari just skips it and tells ya that it did, Firefox eventually skips it silently. Don't know how IE's handling as I never use IE to access FF.net.
EDIT:
I chucked that address into noscript and blocked it. It removed the slowdown, but I appear to have managed to break a large number of page functions by doing so. Meaning no more tabs on Author pages, no more adjusting the text readablity, and who knows what else. I think I best unblock it.
EDIT2:
Ayep, unblocking it fixed it. Going by the info here: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery it appears that someone in development chose to use a one of the three known free-to-all public hosted copy of that script. Bad form that, as there should be a copy on the local servers. Especially if you've made it essential for all the basic site operations.
--Rod.H