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by reidrac 4333 days ago
It killed Chrome and made my laptop irresponsible until I managed to close the page. Something in the thunder generation is bringing my system to its knees.

I'm not complaining about the page or anything, but I'm really surprised how unreliable and fragile are web browsers to pages with javascript. It's using a web worker, but other than that I can't see anything special.

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It killed Chrome and made my laptop irresponsible

I know you meant unresponsive, but this conjured up a delightful image of your laptop jumping around the room snapping its lid at people like a set of autonomous false teeth.

Well, that would be amusing. English is my third language and sometimes I trust too much in the spell checker suggestions.

My graphologies ;)

"irresponsible" -> "unresponsive"
We don't know that was the intention. Perhaps the laptop decided to connect to the internet without a firewall.
Well, in some places it's not a great idea to use your computer in an electrical storm if it's connected to a mains outlet.

Sounds like you were lucky.