When my page loads in IE8 the cpu goes between 40-50% and results in the page and the computer itself becoming very slow (almost non-responsive). The cpu will not come back down no matter what speed or timeout valus are set. When I remove this block from the page everything runs fine. Put the block back in and the cpu jumps back up. This doesn't seem to happen in chrome or safari. It seems to work fine in IE9 where the cpu goes up on transitions and then back down to normal.

I did purchase the horizon60lS4 theme and have it enabled but other than that my configuration is pretty much out of the box.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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ppblaauw’s picture

ppblaauw commented
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Javascript transitions are CPU intensive. A short speed (transition) and a long timeout (time between transitions) is best. Which transition do you use?

Do you have a link to the site?

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sproggle commented

I finally figured this out. Just so you know, I didn't not log this issue in haste. I couldn't figure it out and I'm one day away from production release ;)

Turns out it a google script that I was including was causing the problem. Once I removed this script everything is working as expected. Here is the script I was including:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.1(beta4)/IE9.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Here's the google site: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

Weird thing is it was only effecting the block using ddblock module. When I removed this block everything was okay, even with the google script included. I have other jquery slideshows (with views) running with no issue whether the script is there or not.

Anyway, hopefully this info will be of some value.