Member of the Month

BallClapper
September, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Advertisements on site flash based?

profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16

Are they? I am pretty sure they are right. Well, I don't know what the issue is, but they are causing my browser to consistenly crash every few minutes. I haven't ever had this issue before in the 8 years I have been on Newschoolers. Very annoying. Do I need a new plug-in or something? Somebody help!

An update thing pop ups when I try to load a new page, and then it crashes and asks if I want to send an error report or not. Thanks.

Sep 15 2008 11:45AM
0 0
profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
Bump! A mod response would be really swell. Also, why is it so damn hard to click into the reply box now?
Sep 15 2008 1:23PM
0 0
profile picture
.KYLE.
Posts: 1891 - Karma: 59
on this page now, there are 2 flash ads out of 3....

no clue if there what is making your browser crash
Sep 15 2008 2:56PM
0 0
profile picture
Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
Telling us what browser you are using would sure help out...
Sep 15 2008 3:08PM
0 0
profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
Sorry Ryno, it is Internet Explorer, not sure on the exact version. Also I don't have problems with other sites.

basically, when pages are trying to load sometimes I will get a popup box that looks like it is trying to redirect me to a flash update page. When I click continue, it crashes and gives me that 'send error report" dialogue box. Upon selecting either option, any open IE windows will close out and I have to re-enter my passwords, redo my homework, whatever else I lost by IE crashing.

Also I think I have decided that the reason it is so difficult to click into the data entry boxes on NS (like this one) is, once again, because of the ads. I figured out that I can't start typing until all 3 or 4 of the ads on the page load up completely. Annoying to have to wait for ads to load...
Sep 15 2008 4:49PM
0 0
profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
Flash9e.ocx

That is what popups, and I think what my computer is having trouble with.
Sep 15 2008 4:54PM
0 0
profile picture
Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
Go to Help > About Internet Explorer and see what version you are using
Sep 15 2008 5:09PM
0 0
profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
7.0.5730.13
Sep 15 2008 7:40PM
0 0
profile picture
Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your browser? A file within it might have gotten corrupted...
Sep 18 2008 10:13PM
0 0
profile picture
Commonwealth
Posts: 3729 - Karma: 11
I've found that it is harder to click into the Reply box, as well. But I don't really mind, it only takes a couple of seconds.
Sep 18 2008 11:14PM
0 0
profile picture
Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,562
Whoa weird... Some of the ads are flash based, but certainly not all of them. You can usually tell which ones are because the flash ads have a smoother animation than the .gif ones.

Definitely sounds like some weird browser issue... I've been using chrome a lot of the time, and my flash crashes in random places... both on NS and on other sites.

Has anyone else had this happen?
Sep 19 2008 9:37AM
0 0
profile picture
Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
I uninstalled chrome because tabs would freeze up and it would lock up the whole browser (which is what they advertise it SHOULDN'T do).

FF FTW
Sep 19 2008 9:38AM
0 0
profile picture
dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
This is one of those phantom issues! It hasn't been a problem for me for a while so maybe the issue resolved itself when my computer ran updates?
Sep 19 2008 11:32AM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-4)