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Freezing Snow?

  1. onein36million
    Member

    About the new/returning snow appearance feature. I love it! and I put it on right away. However ... I took it off within minutes. Any reason why starting that up would totally freeze my computer (macbook, os X 10.5.3, firefox 3.0.4 ... sorry if you need more info, let me know)? It started pretty much five minutes after starting the snow, and resolved the moment I removed the snow.

    Can I just not use snow?

    mmm. Maybe I should seek out other snowy blogs and see if it freezes my computer to view them.

  2. thesacredpath
    Member

    It will do that with any browser after a while no matter which. The javascript is pretty processor intensive, and it will after a short while lock up most browsers. That is why I never activate it on any of my blogs.

  3. ninglun
    Member

    I hate to seem a moaner, but "pretty processor intensive" is too true for me. In Firefox, given I have a low-end-ish laptop running XP2(3?) through an older Celeron, I note the snow jacks up CPU usage to near 100%. So I wish, really, that the snow feature could be opted out of on the WP.com site itself. Otherwise, I do think it is cute...

  4. 1tess
    Moderator

    hmm. I didn't know that. It's not that cute. I don't want to alienate readers so I'll take it off.

  5. thelifeofmarkwhitecotton
    Member

    Yeah, just took mine off.

  6. lettershometoyou
    Member

    Unfortunately, it's only good for really fast connections. People last year complained of slow loads too.

  7. beansandyoga
    Member

    Since so many people seem to be having problems with snow, would it be possible to have it de-activated from the WordPress home page?

  8. 1tess
    Moderator

    To turn it off so you don't see any more snow:
    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/odd?replies=15#post-286102

    http://wordpress.com/?holidaysun=please will turn off snow for you on all blogs.
http://wordpress.com/?holidaysun=nothanks will re-enable it.

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