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Something is odd with this web page. At least using chrome on Win7 x64.

I have VS2008 and SQLProfiler, even the Windows Task manager open in the background and they all have parts flickering every ~4 seconds when this page is opened in chrome.

For example in Visual studio the Solution Explorer is refreshing every four seconds.

anybody have any ideas? it's kind of unnerving. Or maybe it's just me.




I just tried it with a few configurations. And I can conclude that it's not just you.

With Chrome and VS2008 with a project open I at least get the Solution Explorer refreshes you described. I don't have time to investigate further right now but my first reaction was that it was a bit scary that a webpage would be able to influence a separate application like that... But a more likely scenario is that VS has hooked up a debugger to the thread and it triggers this behavior.

I don't have any experience with .NET on the web, so I can't say for sure. But I am for sure going to bookmark this and have a look at it later.

Thanks! :)


except it's not just VS, Outlook had certain elements flicker too.

If you go to the chrome options page, and look at the under the hood tab, that whole scroll region flickers too.

Chrome's task manager shows that silverlight is loaded somewhere on that page. maybe that is it.


Safari/OSX it would bring the browser to the foreground every couple of seconds. Even if Safari was hidden. Very irritating.




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