IE hangs when browsing Codeguru

At home, Adobe Flashplayer 9.0 r16, version 9,0,16,0, which makes sense since the at-home error displayed by Visual Studio is "FLASH9.OCX"

Mike

And I spoke too soon :cry: IE just hang up again and now I'm having trouble accessing codeguru with IE. It just hangs up. :(

For those of you using Firefox and having in lock up, please let me know the following:

Firefox Version (look in Help --> About)
Extensions (look in Tools -->Extensions). Either capture the pupup window that lists them (Alt-PrtScrn) or list the names and versions.

I can't get my system to lock up, so I'll try to duplicate the extensions and versions and see if I can narrow things down.

Brad!

I just got a crash with the AMD ad.

Firefox 1.5.0.6
Extensions:
Googlebar Lite
Adblock 0.5.3.043
CGExtension 1.0 (my own extension, deactivated when the crash happened)

Just to clarify I don't get crashes.. I get hangs/frozen IE windows... the same as non-crash victims are getting. I usually don't have the patience to see if the frozen window is back to normal state in 30-50 seconds or so.. so I use taskkill to kill IE. But today, I left two frozen windows the same (did not "End Task" them) while reading other threads and looks like the frozen window comes alive like others said.

At home I have : (let me check)
Adobe flash player 9 ActiveX ; Java runtime env 5 update 6 ; No IE add-ons.. ; IE 6.0.2600.0000 ; Win XP Pro (v 2002) ;
and 128 MB ram and 866 MHz processor :( [very old computer]

I will post the office configurations..

LMAO, just now when I was about to post I do not have any crashing problems with either IE or Firefox at work or home, my Firefox crashes. This is the first time! That is because I was too eager to post, I mouse-scroll before the page is fully loaded: something I do not usually do.

Maybe you guys can try waiting the page to be fully loaded, to see if my observation is true.

Hope it helps.

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Originally Posted by CBasicNet

LMAO, just now when I was about to post I do not have any crashing problems with either IE or Firefox at work or home, my Firefox crashes. This is the first time! That is because I was too eager to post, I mouse-scroll before the page is fully loaded: something I do not usually do.

Maybe you guys can try waiting the page to be fully loaded, to see if my observation is true.

Hope it helps.

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That's correct, i always get a crash (with firefox) when the page is not fully loaded (and the right ad is not visible) and i move my mouse over a link. Just got two crashes in a row for this reason :D. I'm going to try to browse CG in safe mode to see if it's really an extension problem.

I have too many extension for you to try, better wait the page to load entirely than let you try all of them ;)

EDIT: no problems in safe mode...

I've been trying like heck to reproduce this in IE and FF and I have yet to succeed. I'm posting this in FF and I normally visit the site in IE (well, and IE shell, maxthon). I've tried vanilla IE as well. No dice.

This issue is sneaky....

We are working to figure it out. Not sure if it is add-in, an ad, or a combination of the two.

Brad!

can someone that is getting regular crashes (with IE) do me a favor..... :D


Can you install and run Microsoft Fiddler. This tracks HTTP requests. This might help us point a finger at a specific ad or item.

Thanks,

Brad!

In addition, would someone else getting the crashes try disabling Flash for a while and see if that stops the issue? That'll help us determine if it's a flash player mismatch issue with an ad.

Another question for the FF users who are crashing: How many tabs open when this occurs? Does it vary greatly?

Okay I tried what exterminator had said and he's right. :eek: IE actually "hangs up" for just a few minutes. I tried waiting for about 10 mins and IE woke back up again :eek: I'll try installing the Fiddler as Brad has suggested.

Ok here's what I got. I surfed CG until IE hang up. I then executed fiddler and found that IE is trying to open stream.atdmt.com (see image). At first I thought it was just something from my IM (yahoo). I waited until CG wakes up again and found out that CG woke up when the connection to stream.atdmt.com was closed. I hope this helps :)

I've mentioned ATDMT before, but they aren't the only ones. Here's what I just saw, again! (not atdmt) Two CG tabs, and three other ones, which never crash.