[NTLUG:Discuss] Web page advertisers causing browser freeze

[Greg Edwards]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Robert Citek wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 11:35  PM, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
>>
>>> What sites?  I'd be interested in seeing what they do.  Also, what 
>>> browser (and version) are you using?
>>
>>
>>
>> http://media.fastclick.net or http://media.fastclick.com
>>
>> I visited using Mozilla 1.6b, Firefox 0.8, Firebird 0.7, Safari 1.0.2, 
>> and IE 5.2 on Mac OS X 10.2.8.  No problems.
> 
> 
> Wayne Dahl wrote:
> ...
>  >
>  > Another is (and this is repeatable) at
>  > http://www.rpmseek.com/index.html.  I discovered it when I was ...
> 
> Sorry for the delay, I've been busy. :-)
> 
> The common theme to all 3 links is fastclick.*, so there must be 
> something there.  I can't see the problem with Moz 1.6.
> 
> OTOH, I may not be testing it fairly since I run with the "Adblock" 
> plugin. You might consider trying that.
> 
> Kevin
> 

I had some problems with sites killing Mozilla and Knoqueror awhile 
back.  After I removed CrossOver the problems went away.  Your prob may 
not be related, but I think Wine has some issues with plugins used by 
many of the ad ASP sites.

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