to fix the situation, disable brightcove.com from running somehow-- via hosts or firefox's noscript extention, or disabling flash from running on TD.com
repost:
Originally posted by James Holden:
appoligies to low res/dialup users. each picture is 180KB each, 1024x768 resoultion
scripts disabled:
http://jamesholden.com/stuff/scriptsdisabled.jpgscripts enabled:
http://jamesholden.com/stuff/scriptson.jpgthe majority of the load is from the "our latest videos" section on the left hand side of the site, if i disable brightcove's scripts the site runs fine.
there has to be a more efficent script to do what TD is having the one in place do.
if you want to continue using IE-- google "hosts file" and add brightcove.com to it.
edit: the machine this is on is 1.8ghz with 2mb cache, 1024 (1GB) of ram. plenty of power for a old laptop. i can replicate this issue on my home computer (linux mint 4) or work computer (XP) if need be.