Barefoot_Monkey: Oh no, it really shouldn't have any effect on page loading time. Mind if I ask which browser you're using to I can try to reproduce this and maybe get it sorted out? I know snowkatt's using SeaMonkey.
It's like FireFox 15? I'd have to look, as that's a different computer.
I doubt you'd be able to duplicate it... Namely
1) Background processes using 100% of any idle cycles for scientific donation, or recompression.
2) CPU's power settings are set at 50% (
Due to cooling problem)
3) I have 2 FireFox windows with like 20 tabs total open, so sometimes Firefox is using it's 25% for seemingly no reason (
until i restart it and pages don't load til i tell them to).
4) It has no effect on page downloading, but there are a few seconds added while it's processing what games
NOT to show as it goes over it's list...
5) Other background scripts going. Including AdBlocker Plus and... ummm... a few others... I forget what all exactly.