Why do Fox news sites crash my browser?

Factual Questions
1

I use Firefox on Windows XP. Whenever I happen to click on a Fox local-news site, my browser completely locks up for several minutes, if I wait long enough there is a pop-up window that says “Warning: Unresponsive Script”. By the timing of the frozenness, it appears that it may have to do with loading Google Maps onto the site, but I’m not sure.

Any way I can prevent/turn off the “unresponsive script” before the computer becomes completely locked up? Or any other suggestions on how to deal with this? There are times I’m interested in a story that happens to be on a Fox News site and would like to be able to read it. Thank you for any and all info!!

2

What’s the web URL?

3

Oh goodness, it’s every “Fox” news site that I happen to visit, local to different cities in the US. They are generally linked to from cnn or fark.

4

One option is to disable all scripts and only allow the ones you need to run

To do so On firefox install the NoScript extension.

5

Delete your cache. Delete your cookies. Update flash player. Make sure you have the newest version of Firefox.

6

It’s probably all the bad karma.