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Sealobo · May 22, 2002, 06:49 PM

like many times before... this line showed up in the status bar:

Receiving image (0 bytes of 131 bytes, 0 bytes/sec): next_topic3.gif

I know some of you have the same problem... please post if you have the same info showing in the status bar when your IE hangs.

[ 05-22-2002: Message edited by: sealobo ]

KidRed · May 22, 2002, 07:05 PM

Yep, happens to IE about once every 2-3 days on MacNN but also on a few other sites. IE is trash, however it is also greatly supported and supporting so I can't give it up yet. OW also chokes on the images here at MacNN as well as some other sites.

What are you to do, browsers for the mac suck for now.

ChaChi Boy · May 22, 2002, 07:06 PM

MacNN and these forums are just about the only thing that crashes my I.E.

It is pathetic.

Xeo · May 22, 2002, 07:11 PM

Moving to Suggestions and Comments.

ringo · May 22, 2002, 07:27 PM

This has happened to me as well. Sucks, but restarting the browser seems to help somehow.

philzilla · May 22, 2002, 08:05 PM

chalk up another, i've had to force quit IE about 8 times today. every time, i was here. nice.

agentz · May 23, 2002, 01:56 PM

Yeah I get it too, things like yellowpage.gif and the like. Have to force quit my browser and reload it.

Paco500 · May 23, 2002, 02:33 PM

I happy to be supporting OmniWeb bu using it at MacNN, but I wish I only had to use one browser. IE dies here, and almost exclusively here, and OmniWeb craps out or poorly renders lots of other places- and it is SLOW. I'd love to use OmniWeb full time, but it ain't up to the challenge.

I do wish MacNN would work out the problems with the default browser on the computers this site is geared to.

The Placid Casual · May 25, 2002, 05:08 PM

Just a note to say that I too have quite a few problems with IE on the site...although IE crashes so much anyway that I don't know if the blame lies anywhere near MacNN, or a little closer to Redmond

Marc

Captain Obvious · May 25, 2002, 10:41 PM

Yup, same with me. Omniweb as well. Its been happening for a long time. There's a thread about the gifs crashing IE below

scaught · May 26, 2002, 10:22 AM

i havent had a hang since the update. i used to get them pretty frequently so at this juncture im thinking it might have fixed it?

Mactoid · May 26, 2002, 01:29 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Marc2211:
Just a note to say that I too have quite a few problems with IE on the site...although IE crashes so much anyway that I don't know if the blame lies anywhere near MacNN, or a little closer to Redmond <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> <hr /></blockquote>Defiantly lies a little closer to Redmond! Web browsers should not crash, period. If you put a bunch of garbage in a page, maybe it won't be able to display it, but no page would be able to crash a good browser.

Just like if Mac OS X crashes, then Apple is at fault because no application should be able to crash a good OS.

scaught · May 27, 2002, 08:33 PM

i posted recently that i havent had a hang since the update.

well, scratch that. just had one. damn.

mindwaves · May 27, 2002, 09:25 PM

IE hanged again 4 times so far today.

cube-dude · May 28, 2002, 10:23 AM

I hang or Force Quit daily, both before and after the upgrade (Cube, IE, dialup at home). Out of hundreds of bookmarks, only MacNN sites are a problem. At work (Dell, IE, T1 line), there is no issue.

andi*pandi · May 28, 2002, 06:00 PM

me too. and here I just about switched over from netscape... sigh.

tomra · Jun 3, 2002, 04:37 PM

Hi.

Good to hear i`m not alone.
I`ve found IE 5.1 to be very stable....except in this forum, but only for the last few days

Tom.

Simon X · Jun 4, 2002, 11:00 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by tomra:
Hi.

Good to hear i`m not alone.
I`ve found IE 5.1 to be very stable....except in this forum, but only for the last few days

Tom.<hr /></blockquote>It's happening again. MacNN forums are freezing IE. Normally I would blame IE but I only see this happening here. Nearly every other page hangs IE. Very tedious

M�lum · Jun 4, 2002, 02:25 PM

Same here. Almost twice a day I have to force quit IE on these forums..Only here though. So maybe its MacNN to blame.

Captain Obvious · Jun 4, 2002, 02:33 PM

Why hasnt this been fixed or at least explained to us? This has been a problem for months. Its one thing in OS X where I can just restart the program but this hang in Classic makes me have to reboot sometimes.

Its past annoying and a fix should be found considering how many people have found this thread and others like it, there's gotta be even more people it happens to that aren't posting.

gorgonzola · Jun 4, 2002, 06:49 PM

Yes, I'm trying to get hold of someone at our ad provider that can take a look at the code and let us know if that's what's causing the problem.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I know it's been a while.

scaught · Jun 4, 2002, 10:20 PM

actually, at my last IE crash (30 seconds ago), THIS line of text was sitting in the status bar, waiting to load...

gentlemen, i present to you exhibit A-
<blockquote>quote:<hr /> Fetching image <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/demonhood/demonsig7.gif" target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/demonhood/demonsig7.gif</a> <hr /></blockquote>dun dun dun!!!!!

actually. and this is probably far fetched as ****, but could that damned "picture association thread" have anything to do with this? a load on the server type of thing or something? smack me and call me dumb if im barking up the completely wrong tree here...

TNproud2b · Jun 5, 2002, 12:13 AM

I'm using IE6 in WinXP and it never crashes. Must be a problem with the Mac version of IE.

The site does indeed get 'slow' pretty frequently, with pages taking over 30 seconds to load over broadband.

The pages do eventually load - I don't think the server ever completely stops responding.

[ 06-05-2002, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: TNproud2b ]

WildZero · Jun 5, 2002, 12:27 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by scaught:
actually. and this is probably far fetched as ****, but could that damned "picture association thread" have anything to do with this? a load on the server type of thing or something? smack me and call me dumb if im barking up the completely wrong tree here...<hr /></blockquote>Smack! (kidding). The images in the picture association thread aren't hosted by macnn's servers so I doubt they would increase server load.

If I'm wrong, then let me be the first to say: Lock the Mother****er

Captain Obvious · Jun 5, 2002, 03:28 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by gorgonzola:
Yes, I'm trying to get hold of someone at our ad provider that can take a look at the code and let us know if that's what's causing the problem.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I know it's been a while.<hr /></blockquote>Thanks for looking into it

CaseCom · Jun 12, 2002, 01:59 AM

Update????

Crashed 6 times in a row just now trying to load different threads in IE. Posting this in OmniWeb.

Has it gotten worse for anyone else?

(Edit: Emptied IE's cache and haven't crashed once since. Hmmm...)

[ 06-12-2002, 03:21 AM: Message edited by: CaseCom ]

crystalthunder · Jun 13, 2002, 11:40 AM

I think the reason IE crashes so much on MacNN is because IE 5.1 has a problem handling big CGI files like this forum, but I'm not positive on that tho

mrl14 · Jun 19, 2002, 03:50 PM

guys it's the ads that are crashing MacNN. Here is why.

1) it doesn't happen everytime you load MacNN
2) MacNN will crash on its homepage, its team page, its forums, its reviews page, etc
3) It's one of the rotating ads because if it was the static ads it would crash everytime.
4) It doesn't happen on any other site
5) This is a Mac ONLY related issue to IE. I dont know if it affects OS 9 though.

So Administrators, get to work, cuz u all know what's a matter now =) (Watch, go ad free for one day and no one will crash)

CaseCom · Jun 20, 2002, 03:01 AM

I still have not crashed since clearing my cache a week ago.

Maybe not the solution for everyone, but it's worth a try.

Sealobo · Jun 21, 2002, 01:48 AM

I was trying to open this tread just then and then IE 5.3 showed me the beach ball.

This time the status bar showed this:

Fetching image <a href="http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/forums/wink.gif" target="_blank">http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/forums/wink.gif</a>

:o