My browser is freezing up on SatelliteGuys

[Tom Bombadil]

Starting a few days ago, my browser starting freezing / hanging when browsing SatGuys. It had never happened before, and I'm not having problems with any other web site.

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3 on a Macintosh running OS X.

It only freezes the window (and all tabs in that window) with SatGuys in it. All of the other windows work fine. And if I immediately open a window back to SatGuys, it works fine for 30-90 minutes until it freezes again.

It happens in all SatGuy's forums.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

It happened three more times tonight. Still no problem with any other URL.

 

[charper1]

maybe something to do with ads?

 

[Purogamer]

1) Try PDA Mode, see if it still does it. If it stops (i'm sure it will), start blocking images until you figure out what's causing it, and then report back what's causing the freeze and someone will take a look at it i'm sure. May take a few days to figure out which of the images on the page are causing it, but that's probably what it is.

I'm a little unhappy that I got some satellite dish spam this morning, though I'm signed up for nothing but this site. Some tracking going on that we don't know about?

 

[raoul5788]

1) Try PDA Mode, see if it still does it. If it stops (i'm sure it will), start blocking images until you figure out what's causing it, and then report back what's causing the freeze and someone will take a look at it i'm sure. May take a few days to figure out which of the images on the page are causing it, but that's probably what it is.

I'm a little unhappy that I got some satellite dish spam this morning, though I'm signed up for nothing but this site. Some tracking going on that we don't know about?

It might have been random, nothing to do with this site.

 

[arxaw]

Starting a few days ago, my browser starting freezing / hanging when browsing SatGuys...

Install the Firefox add-on (extension) called "No-Script" at the link below. Then, disable scripting for this site.

Get No-Script extension here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I'll try the no-script option.

Have had no problems when using my Wintel box, also with Firefox 1.5.0.3

 

[ghia]

I am using Firefox 1.5.0.3 on OSX ver. 10.4.6 with no issues. (Safari is another story)

 

[Van]

Im getting a hanging issue since the emergency downtime recently, not really a big issue just need to hit refresh every so often to get it going.

 

[korsjs]

ler and ilya did some work on it yesterday. should be back to normal.

 

[Purogamer]

Could also be a caching issue for those of you who have large cache allocations. Sometimes the simple fixes are the ones you overlook...

I'd like to think the majority of us are on firefox and we're not having these issues from what I can tell...

 

[raoul5788]

Could also be a caching issue for those of you who have large cache allocations. Sometimes the simple fixes are the ones you overlook...

I'd like to think the majority of us are on firefox and we're not having these issues from what I can tell...

I'm using Firefox with no issues, not since the slow loading page problem went away.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Since disabling scripts, I haven't had a problem.

I now have the 1.5.0.4 update, and with word that some things on the board have been fixed, I'm going to turn scripts back on to see if the problem returns.