[OU] hangs

[James Card]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:07:06 -0700, Peter Saint James  
<peterstj at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 	On certain websites Opera will hang.
>
> 	Usually when the page needs multiple servers to complete.  For
> example, if it has ads on the page, when it tries to get the ads, it
> says that the request has been completed, but it will not load the page.

Is it possible that you've used Opera's "Block Content" feature to tell  
Opera not to load content from those ad servers? If so, it may be possible  
that JavaScript code is waiting for the ads to load before telling Opera  
to fetch the rest of the page content. That wouldn't be a very good way to  
design a page, but some advertisers are quite persistent in making sure  
the ads they paid for actually get seen.

Three things come to mind that may help:

1. Reload the page. This sometimes helps when a page gets stuck waiting  
for a request to complete; it seems that the first request got delayed or  
diverted somehow but the second gets through right away.

2. Temporarily disable JavaScript. The F12 key makes this quick and easy.  
If this solves the loading problem you may want use the "Edit Site  
Preferences" option to keep JavaScript turned off for that site so you can  
keep it enabled for your other browsing.

3. Use the "Details" button in the "Block Content" dialog for that site to  
re-enable the ad-server that is holding up the page loading.

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