* hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-07 13:11]: > Bill Moseley wrote: > >This is on sid, but this has been an ongoing problem for quite some time. > > > >Mozilla hangs on some sites, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this > >same problem. It seems to always hang at http://abcnews.go.com and > > Well, the consensus seems to be it's Java, but WFM! > > I have: > > Mozilla-1.7b with xft self compiled with gcc-3.2 from the source tar.bz2 > j2re1.4.1 from Blackdown with gcc-3.2 > > I go to your site which seems to do which that site prides itself on. > The only thing that seems to be "off" is that I have to turn off minimum > font size in Moz. or some of the text gets clipped. They design those > pages for people running postage stamp size displays as default. > Then I can also play the java animator demos, so java is up and running. > > If it's java, it ain't here ;-) >
It ain't java, it's Macromedia Flash, maybe in combination with some javascript. Some pages are worse than others, the above url is particularly bad. I've tried adding the worst offenders to my hosts file, but there's always more, and it's no fun killing the browser or running into the offending pages. Frankly, I got so fed up with it that I was about to remove Flash completely. I found http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation.html. This works fine for most of the offending pages. Enable software installation in preferences then click the link to install. Enjoy! -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
