In my last post, I asked about places to live in Boston for the month…well, none of those ideas worked, so I’m in a hostel. Now here’s my new problem: I’m trying to look into Classifieds at the Boston Globe and whenever I go into a specific city search, it just freezes on me and stops working. Grr…
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Can you give us the exact page which hangs? The url?
What’s your computer? Windows? Mac?
What version do you have? Window Vista sp2 for example
What browswer are you using? And version? Like IE8
Do you have another browser? Like IE and Chrome. If so does it do it in both broswers?
Do you have this trouble with any other sites?
Do you have virus protection that is update?
I found when sites slow to a halt it often is poor scripting, particularly javascript. It’s just hanging there.
Another thing I found which more often effects Firefox is the use of third party cookies. This is really bad on YouTube.
If I block third party cookies and I pull up a YouTube video with an ad from a particular company using this, the video hangs or says “temporarily unavailble try again later.” If I refresh the screen, and get a different ad it probably will work, as long as that new ad isn’t using a third party cookie.
What happens is people block “third party cookies.” The problem is the definition for this varies. The traditional definition is a cookie is this: cookies are called third-party cookies if the server sending them is located outside the domain of the Web page
Some browsers don’t use that definition. Some say if a cookie is set by the same domain as the page BUT READ BY A THIRD PARTY, it’s a third party cookie.
(But that is a different thread :))
So anyway it causes hangs.
The two quickest suggestions are try another browser or set your current browswer to accept all cookies. (You can always reset it)
FLASH can also cause hang ups. I have my browser set to reject all FLASH and then it produces an icon which allows me to turn each FLASH element on by itself.