On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:08 +0100, John Matthews <jake...@sky.com> wrote: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 > Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using, > and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now > open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to > read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It > just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close > the window. Can somebody help please? > I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It > loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I > have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or > something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if > it will work to show you. John > > I have had the same problem in the past, and found that stopping and > > restarting FlashBlock cleared it. Rowan > Hi, um not sure what flashblock is, is that an addon? I only have a > few addons, because I found too many took up to much cpu usage. I am > pretty certain its not an addon. John
Yeah, sorry. FlashBlock is an add-on I have personally never been without; I regard it as essential. In fact, if you have never tried it, maybe you should. It stops all flash content from loading automatically when you open a page. It is possible, I think, that your browser is trying to load some flash content that is causing it to hang, so FlashBlock would in fact solve your problem. When you have FlashBlock, you see the embedded video window and see a big start button instead of a sample frame from the video. If you want to load the video you press it; if not, it stays unloaded, thereby saving the browser time and trouble, and sparing you many animated advertisements. It also contains an easy-to-use "allow flash content on this page" button, so that you can tell it to load the flash content normally on pages where you visit regularly and know the flash content is safe and desirable. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
