Campaign Tab overloading my computer


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Shadow Lodge

Greetings!
I am on a Mac (10.9.4) using the latest version of Chrome (36.0.1985.143) and I'm having a problem with the Paizo web site.

I do a lot of play by post, and when I have a campaign tab open (such as http://paizo.com/campaigns/CurseOfTheCrimsonThrone/gameplay&page=last) that tab gradually uses more and more processing power until it maxes out and my machine's fan is screaming bloody murder.

My browser slows to a crawl and I have a hard time even scrolling on the page (or any page using Chrome).

I can confirm this by opening the activity monitor app. When I create a tab and populate the campaign link above, a new process appears "Chrome Helper". It ratchets up until it's using 99.9% CPU every time. If I open two browser tabs with two campaigns, I get two 'Helpers' both of which take up all the CPU. It ONLY happens with Paizo campaign tabs, not with other areas of the site or other sites.

It feels like some new client-side script was added and it's out of control in the campaign tabs. It does not happen on my Safari browser as far as I can tell - just Chrome. It started yesterday (8/21/14).

I'd really rather not have to drop Chrome as my primary browser for Paizo's web site. Can someone please take a look at it? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.


This seems to be a Chrome/Apple issue that isn't specific to the Paizo site.

Shadow Lodge

Joana, I respectfully disagree.

It's not spawning multiple "Helpers" - just the one for each tab (and not all tabs - just paizo.com/camapaign tabs). So I don't have a run-away helper issue crashing my browser. And their fix doesn't resolve my issue in any way, so I don't think it's related.

Thanks though for trying to sort it out for me. It is very close to my actual issue. It is possible it's related, but this feels more like something Paizo added to their web site yesterday.

Of course if Paizo added nothing yesterday than it could be something else - but nothing has changed in my configuration in the last week. Everything seems to point to a change on Paizo's end.

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