# Why are some web pages locking up my browsers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-web-pages-locking-up-my-browsers/606347 "2011-12-16T00:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-web-pages-locking-up-my-browsers/606347/1 "2011-12-16T00:09:09Z")
Yes Im looking at at you Slate ([www.slate.com](http://www.slate.com)) amongst others. Using chrome. firefox or IE, slate (all up do date run on a 4 core vista machine) cause the browser to become unresponsive, sometimes forwever and have to close and others it clears after 20 seconds or so. IE blames a plugin (unknown) but it cant be because it happens on all three. Some sort of script? and is there anyway of turning it off? And wouldnt a website check its pages once in a while to see if they work? ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-web-pages-locking-up-my-browsers/606347/2 "2011-12-16T00:28:10Z")
The same plugin is used by all three browsers. In Firefox: Tools / Add-ons / Plugins will list them. In Chrome, visit chrome://plugins/ ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-web-pages-locking-up-my-browsers/606347/3 "2011-12-16T02:09:51Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > The same plugin is used by all three browsers. > > In Firefox: Tools / Add-ons / Plugins will list them. > > In Chrome, visit chrome://plugins/ thanks for the tip. the offender is that old bloater Shockwave - I have disabled it and it runs much smoother.