Re: [SLUG] CNN & Konqueror

From: SOTL (sotl155360@bellsouth.net)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 20:32:19 EDT


On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:44, Richard Smoot wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 10:01, SOTL wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Is anyone besides myself having issues with CNN and Konqueror?
> >
> > I have SuSE10.1 and Fedora 5 both of which have KDE 3.5.1; both of which
> > crash every time one attempts to read an article off the main page of
> > CNN.
> >
> > I have Mandrake 10.1 which has KDE 3.1.1 and Scientific Linux which has
> > KDE 3.3.1 both of which do not crash reading exactly the same article.
> >
> > SOTL
>
> I was having similar issues with the AP News going thru TBO.com.
> The current version of Firefox pretty much cleared it up. Now I only
> rarely crash there instead of always crashing within 1 or 2 stories into
> the list. I think the problem was the excessive add content. I would start
> to get the story and as the adds loaded it would crash. I think the
> animated adds are using more shockwave and JAVA than animated GIF.
>
> Richard Smoot

A little more investigations has shown that the OS in which loading CNN fails
in are the ones I have pop-ups turned off in. Those that have pop-ups turned
on in are not crashing.

SOTL
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