[OU] Ang: Re: Ang: hangs

[Hugh Burns]

I have a similar problem when viewing http://download.cnet.com/windows.

Attempting to go to one its links causes it to hang up, and the back arrow  
will not
function. Sometimes, the double back arrow will get me out of the site.
At other times, I have to close Opera completely.

A friend,not running Opera, has similar situation with this site.
So, appears that this site is so designed to require us to
see its ads.

Raleigh





On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:51 -0400, rolf-str at privat.utfors.se  
<rolf-str at privat.utfors.se> wrote:

>> ----Ursprungligt meddelande----
>> Från: peterstj at earthlink.net
>> 	No.  What happens is part of the page will load.  The headings will
>> load.  A few other items.  Perhaps the headlines will load.  Then it
>> gets to trying to load ads or something and hangs.  The story--the
>> part that I came to the page for--does not load.
>>
>> 	If I could get the page to skip the ads (or whatever it's hung on) I
>> assume that the story would load.
>
> Just to be on the safe side - have you tried shutting off javascript,  
> and perhaps flash,
> on those pages, and then reload? Have you any links to those pages?
>
> Some programs allow you to block access to specific web adresses. I  
> don't know enough
> about this, but in that scenario you could stop the browser from trying  
> to reach those ad
> servers.
>
> There is a special case that perhaps could be behind your problem:  
> Standard is that the
> browser shall not stop downloading until it has received information  
> from the server that
> all has been sent. It has been said that Microsoft has "simplified"  
> that, so that the MS
> IIS server for efficiency reasons does not send out such a message, and  
> the MS Internet
> Explorer for similar reasons takes it for granted that it can stop  
> downloading in that
> situation. An unholy alliance which cannot be handled by other browsers,  
> because there is
> nothing to tell whether it's a situation of low bandwidth or really  
> everything sent.
>
> cheers/Rolf
>



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