Cleaning up a customer's PC, I made the mistake of leaving a tab open on Yahoo's home page. Only 1 minute later: malvertized. Sunuva...
I did it again to pin down the cause, & indeed it's Yahoo's ads breaking out, taking over the page, & loading scary messages that make it difficult to leave.
I can't stress enough, folks, that an ad blocker is Internet SECURITY software.
"Ostrich" is etymologically from a two-word Latin phrase, "avis struthio". "Avis struthio" means "ostrich bird".
"struthio" (which means "ostrich") comes from "struthiocamelus", which is from Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος, both of which mean "ostrich". But στρουθιοκάμηλος is built from two other words: στρουθόs, "sparrow" + κάμηλος "camel".
So etymologically, an ostrich is a "sparrow camel bird".
@claudiom Since you have ad and tracker blocking at least on Firefox, it could be a website in the background trying to load ads, failing to do so, and the trying to load ads again. If it's coded poorly enough, something like that could hammer your browser (and, therefore, your computer overall).
@claudiom Perhaps the sites you have pinned are hoggy with RAM and CPU?
Some sites love to continually poll in the background and keep loading lots and lots of data and/or burn the CPU to do various tasks. (Some sites are even mining Bitcoin and other crypto currencies now!)
It's probably worth profiling the sites with devtools in Firefox and/or Chrome.
Keeping the network tab on either's devtools might be enough to show background network rewuests, which would indicate background activity.
Hey, dyslexics! What is your personal experience with dyslexia fonts? Do they help? Do you feel meh about them? Do they make you feel better about life?
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