Sounds very similar to "noscript" which I think will do the same thing except that it stops lot of other site scripting. Also are you going via any proxy servers? I had a similar problem a while ago and someone on the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel told me its likely a proxy, following their advice i took any proxy out of my gnome proxy settings and firefox and connected directly to BBC iplayer site and i could view the content just fine.
Thanks Mark On 14 April 2010 14:13, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 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/ >
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