300685 - Ads on this web site flash like a strobe lite and don't stop

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[joelpalmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

When on MSNBC.com, my home page, the ads flash at high speed like a strobe lite
and I cannot get them to stop.

This does not happen on the same web site when I open it using Explorer.  Help?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open MSNBC.com
2. Select http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8560767/
3. Some Ads flash off and on at high speed

Actual Results:  
Same thing

Expected Results:  
Ads should not flash

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

I see this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.9)
Gecko/20050709 Firefox/1.0.5
I do not see this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050713 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005071314

Also with 1.05, the ticker/marquee at the top is sometimes unreadable because
all the text goes over itself.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** Bug 302020 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Since this is fixed for FF1.5 ->WFM
(it's a dupe of a bug fixed long ago, but I can't find it)

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** Bug 302850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***