219703 - Broswer hangs on loading advertisement

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219150

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jord van der Elst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030904
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917

It's not in the version of Moz that I am using, but all versions beyond that. 
I go to the forums and after loading the MaxPC bar at the top, the browser hangs
on loading ad.uk.doubleclick.net 
Which should be impossible, because that link is blocked in my HOSTS file under
Windows. 

My present version 2003090404 shows the loading for a millisecond then continues
towards the forums. I just tried 20030917 and it hung up on me again. As did
20030915 and 20030914 before it. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load forums from bookmark or by typing in the address bar
2. Forums will hang on loading the advert it is supposed to skip
3.

Actual Results:  
-

Expected Results:  
-

It wouldn't be a problem if I could press the Stop button and it would show me
the forums, but even that it doesn't do. It stops on a white screen with the
black ad bar at the top. 

Force loading with Shift + F5 also stops the forums from loading. 

Killing the browser completely, then reloading and going directly to the forums
will sometimes have effect. But at that time the forum's new posts cookie will
have been reset, so it's rather useless.

Comment 1

[Jord van der Elst]

Oh, do know for the researchers that will follow the link, that the forums have
major problems with their database server (something blew up). So you may come
across a "phpBB: Critical error can't connect to database" error, or find that
the link is extremely slow loading. 

That's kind of normal. ;)

Comment 2

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

"... because that link is blocked in my HOSTS file" exactly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219150 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe.