Further to my previous post ... I went to my Internet Options, Advanced tab, and unticked the 'Play animations box'.
This froze all the moving snowmen and blinking adverts, and my CPU indicator now shows about 10 percent usage max. Much quicker on page loading. Yeehaaa!!
I thought this was the very reason Pprune moderaters restricted animations from being posted from time to time.
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sprocket: .. No standards? Nooo problems!