# Why do Fox news sites crash my browser?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362 "2009-11-21T02:03:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/1 "2009-11-21T02:03:54Z")

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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!!

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/2 "2009-11-21T02:28:35Z")

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What’s the web URL?

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**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/3 "2009-11-21T02:32:19Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Bbusyb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bbusyb/32/4580_2.png) [@Bbusyb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bbusyb)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/4 "2009-11-21T04:45:54Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/5 "2009-11-21T23:47:32Z")

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

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**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-fox-news-sites-crash-my-browser/518362/6 "2009-11-22T00:11:41Z")

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It’s probably all the bad karma.