[NTLUG:Discuss] Web page advertisers causing browser freeze

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Guys, this is REALLY ticking me off!  Click on a web page, watch the
> bottom status bar and see what advertisers the page is loading content
> from.  It seems that almost every time I click on a page, if it goes to
> media.fastclick.net or .com, the browser completely freezes up.  And
> this is not just from Mozilla, but from IE, from Netscape and Firefox. 
> It seems every browser I have hates that site and I wind up having to
> open up a terminal window to kill the browser.  This is REALLY annoying
> when you're actually trying to get to something!

Like others, I tend to map the really annoying (or even dangerous if on the 
kid's computer) sites to 127.0.0.1.  Mozilla also has site block too, at least 
for images.  Right click on an image and pick "block images from this server" 
(i.e. the server that sent you the image which may not be what's in the URL).

> 
> Am I missing something here?  Is there some way to block content from
> specific sites that seem to cause problems like this?  Not only does it
> cause the browser to freeze, but sometimes takes up a lot of CPU cycles
> that causes the whole machine to turn to molasses until I can get a
> terminal window opened to kill the browser.  Is there maybe something
> else going on besides just the browser issue that I should be looking
> for?

What sites?  I'd be interested in seeing what they do.  Also, what browser 
(and version) are you using?

Kevin