cbc.ca news site freezes 30 secs javascript

[Walter Dnes]

Open any news article at cbc.ca, e.g. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lava-bomb-boat-hawaii-volcano-1.4749206 and it freezes 30 seconds. Then it comes up with "Warning: Unresponsive script" for script http://www.cbc.ca/g/stats/amplitude-library.js:1 Is there any way short of noscript to fix this?

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[therube]

It's got some ads that refresh themselves resulting in CPU spikes, otherwise, not particularly seeing any issues.

Though other then the ads, the page alone - when focused, seems to eat ~5% CPU?
(Other browser are similarly affected.)

[Rickkins]

Visit that site every day, never seen that.

[Moonchild]

if you're using script blockers already then that might actually be the cause of it.

I can't reproduce any hung script on my end. Using ABL to block the heavy ads, it actually loads pretty snappy.