MS ads kill Firefox?

[Demon-Xanth]

I've noticed that when I go here:
http://snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp

...and there's more than one ad for MS, CPU usage maxes out and effectively locks it up. This never happens with any other ads for the site. I have to kill and restart my browser until I can adblock them, otherwise the site is unusable. Has anyone else noticed this?

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[rh71]

FF p0wn3d ???

 

[mobobuff]

Yep, those ads don't render very well with Firefox, but it doesn't come close to locking up. *pets processor*

 

[Gibson486]

is FF coded in java like netscape was?

 

Poor code.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Poor code.

Or poor client.

On a side note, anyone know how to prevent Firefox from spanning waaaaaaaay over there ----> on threads with a lot of quoting?

 

[TheNoblePlatypus]

I don't see any ads with Firefox on that site. 😕

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

"You AH the wrong-est form... gOOdbye!"

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
is FF coded in java like netscape was?

😕

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Gibson486
is FF coded from Mozilla like netscape was?

😕

fixed

 

[VirtualLarry]

That really wouldn't surprise me. It's possible to take up 100% CPU time using Java or Flash ads, if coded badly, and it just makes the rest of the browser bog way down. I haven't had that problem personally, but I've seen plenty of people complain about it. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that MS would do this on purpose, to make FF look bad - they did something very, very similar, by delaying the server response for pages by a couple of seconds if the User-Agent string indicated Netscape, a few years back. Both their sites, and many of their "partner" content sites around the web that they had an influence over. Much like the intential bad CSS stylesheets fed to Opera for MSN.com - there is no low that MS won't stoop to, to make the competition look bad. Opera got something like $12Mil out of that deal, when they settled out court, IIRC. Not bad, but how much market-share did it cost them, due to bad PR and people switching away that happened to be MSN.com customers too?