Closed Bug 263364 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Certain banner ads lock up browser

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows ME
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: hdaniel1, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

On various websites that run banner ads, some banner ads lockup the Firefox
browser.  I get back functionality about 30 seconds later.  Ads that I have seen
that lock up the browser are the monster.com and MSN search banner ads.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to any site that has a banner ad.
2.  Keep reloading until you get either the MSN search ad or the monster.com ad.
3.

Actual Results:  
When either the MSN search ad or the monster.com ad comes up, it locks up my
browser.  Get functionality back about 30 or more seconds later.

Expected Results:  
Should not lock up at all.
get rid of these awfully slow adservers and use adblock
FYI even IE hangs on stuff like that
setting WFM, FF can't help that some adservers are so slow
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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