CNN crashes my Linux/Firefox browser

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Seems ok with Firefox 1.5.0.2
RickT

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 22:21 -0400, Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> I'm using Firefox 1.0 pre release. Haven't had problems till today.
> Looks like its blocking a popup and attempting to access
> ads.pointroll.com for something the the mouse stays as a pointer over
> any link and the browser functions all freeze up. I then have to restart
> the browser. I'll try to upgrade to latest version of Firefox...I guess.
> RickT
>  
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:34 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:16:38 -0400
> > Rick Tomaschuk got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> > 
> > > When I try to load CNN.com my browser freezes. Anyone else notice this?
> > > CNN seems to be anti-Linux but this is strange...
> > 
> > No problems here with my browser (Firefox), though CNN crashes my brain with
> > all the BS ;-)
> > 
> > Perhaps it's not the browser but a plugin/extension that's causing the crash?
> > Which browser are you using? Wild guess is Konq...
> > 
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