CNN crashes my Linux/Firefox browser

[Rick Tomaschuk]

It's good to know 'flash' is the culprit...

RickT

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 18:15 +0300, Peter wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> 
> > While I initially thought extension 'flashblock' to be the solution to
> > the CNN.COM error with Firefox 1.5.0.2 it now looks like CNN.COM did in
> > fact have some sort of incompatibility that particular day since now I
> > am able to access CNN.COM using Firefox 1.0 with no adverse effects.
> > Firefox 1.0 does not support appear 'flashblock' and/or I do not have it
> > installed on Firefox 1.0.
> 
> Ever since Flash has been in use, some advertisements using Flash crash 
> browsers. I do not know why. The flashblock brevents this, but the 
> original issue is with a particular edition of a webpage. Since these 
> change daily, ymmv. The problem may come back in afew days or weeks.
> 
> Peter
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