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TalkBass is consistently freezing my browser

paulraphael

paulraphael

Apr 13, 2006
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If you heard me play, you'd stop reading what I write.
#1
I'm using Safari 2.0.3 in OSX 10.4.6.

I can use the forum fine, but typically after a few minutes of browsing here, a message will partially load and then the browser will freeze, with the spinning beachball of death. I've never had this issue with another site or forum.

I'm using a utility called pith helmet, which blocks certain ads and animations and java content, to speed things up. Not sure if this could have anything to do with it.

Thoughts?
 
#5
I use Mac OSX 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6).

It has not happened recently, but a while ago (perhaps a month or more) Safari would occationally "hang" for a while, perhaps 10-20 seconds, while loading a TalkBass page. I traced the problem to these little buggers:
http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
The problem went away when I disabled Java and Javascript.
I don't know much about these things, but I suspect that the Java impelemtation in Safari is the real source of the problem. The browser really struggles when I surf Warmoth.com with Java and Javascript enabled.

Hope that helps...
 
#10
KeithPas said:
I don;t have Safari, which I'm assuming is an operatiing system. I'm using Windows 2000
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I was addressing paulrafael who stated he had Mac OSX using the Safari browser.

Keith,

What other programs (Windows 2000) are running when using your browser?
Is your browser (I assume Explorer) only slow with talkbass? Compare the speed using eBay or Google.
Does it only get slow after using it for a time?
 
#11
Make sure you have the latest Java pack. If you have the latest version of Safari (or IE) but an older version of Java, there could be trouble.
There's also the issue of Safari's page displaying speed. By default, Safari waits a certain amount of time before it displays the content. You can disable this with Onyx or SafariSpeed, available from macupdate.com or versiontracker.
 
#13
JansenW said:
I was addressing paulrafael who stated he had Mac OSX using the Safari browser.

Keith,

What other programs (Windows 2000) are running when using your browser?
Is your browser (I assume Explorer) only slow with talkbass? Compare the speed using eBay or Google.
Does it only get slow after using it for a time?
Click to expand...


The only other program I have running is usually just a card game and maybe the word processor, to keep me occupied while I wait for the page to load. This is the only site that I have this problem on. Some other sites take a little longer to load but they do load. TB often does not load when I click on the "Forums" link or the "Bass Forums" link, it just times out.
 
#14
KeithPas said:
The only other program I have running is usually just a card game and maybe the word processor, to keep me occupied while I wait for the page to load. This is the only site that I have this problem on. Some other sites take a little longer to load but they do load. TB often does not load when I click on the "Forums" link or the "Bass Forums" link, it just times out.
Click to expand...
What type of connection are you using? (Modem/DSL/Cable)
What speed do you get when you run the spead test (download-JavaScript) at the top of this web page?
http://www.bandwidth.com/
 
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