Posted on 07/21/2015 5:06:29 AM PDT by Chickensoup
I go to FB at least once a day to check on kids. After I visit I go to options and clear my files and caches. I also run Adblock (May the LORD bless it!(now I can go to Brietbart!))
Each time I go to FB it freezes my computer while the disk runs madly. How frozen, chickensoup? Frozen enough that it stopped a cd I was listening to dead in its tracks, only to start back up when unfrozen.
If I don't clear my caches and files there is no freezing.
Anyone else experience this?
Will Adblock work on a Mac?
AdBlockPlus does a pretty good job of eliminating the non-flash ads. FlashBlock keeps you from downloading every idiot flash-based advert when you access a page. Ghostery gives you control over the spyware crap that nearly everybody tries to saddle you with.
If you aren't using at least these things you are experiencing much more grief than you need to.
Nice but doesn’t support Windows.
Absolutely! I consider NoScript an absolute necessity. I find that most "modern" web sites are almost 100% unnecessary crap and are nearly unusable without ad and script blocking.
I have the Adblock plus, I will look into the other two!
Some sites loads a ton of junk. Amazon is bad about that, too.
When that happens, I click on the ‘stop’ button on the browser toolbar.
Various websites have various problems.
Whenever I go to Stars-NHL website, it stops loading after a while and pops up a ‘scripting’ error. It has done that for several years.
Occasionally, Walmart.com will error out and not fully load. That seems to happen with many websites that have converted to ‘mobile-friendly’ formats. They may be ‘mobile-friendly’ but they mess up on ‘real’ computers.
I actually have several browsers. Many times, a page or video that will not open in one browser may or may not open in another.
A lot of it is just poor programming.
Roger that. Hot Air is even worse than The Blaze when it comes to intrusive scripts and tracking cookies. I added Ghostery which shows you all the tracking cookies a site is trying to add to your computer. Hot Air adds 3 to 4 more than any other web site I visit. I love the content but I'm beginning to think the price is just too high.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/protect-yourself-from-flash-attacks-in-internet-explorer/
Nice article for windows folks.
Yes, my display driver sometimes will quit working at that website! Too much going on I guess.
FB is like an information superhighway for malware.
Nice but doesn’t support Windows.
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What doesn’t support Windows? I run Win 8.1 (yuck).
i had the same thing happening...
what I discovered through trial and error, if you have 2 anti virus programs in your computer ( I had windows and avast) they fight each other and freeze facebook and slow down the rest of your computer...
only run 1 anti virus program and the problem goes away
It used to happen to me.
Then I turned Flash off. Now the ubiquitous movies don’t run.
Now Facebook is better.
8.1 poor you.
Flashblock.
Simple solution - call the kids and actually speak with them and never use FB.
ah...only if it could be so...
I don’t experience that. Possible reasons:
I don’t use FB or go there;
for the other sites, I use the “edit site preferences” option of Opera, where I can de-select javascript and cookies and popups and animated images and so much else;
and I use ghostery. (Available free at ghostery.com)
No it doesn’t.
It’s probably Flash
Facebook NEVER freezes my computer. Neither does Twitter.
How is that possible?
Easy.
I don’t use either of them, and never have.
I avoid all possible problems if at all possible.
Heck, Google never freezes my computer either. Guess why?
However, I am getting tired of using Firefox, since it’s gotten way too slow, even after I clear my FF cache. Perhaps it’s got a lot to do with using Yahoo too much. I might have to stop using any Yahoo properties too.
Waiting for Windows 10, and perhaps all of my online caches will start from scratch. My try Edge to see if my online browsing gets any better.
Still, I’ll NEVER get any freezes from FB or Twitter or any large online web-site. Once one of those web-sites I frequent starts to get ‘busy’ on me, or buggy, or runs scripts on my ‘puter, they’re gone.
> Sounds like your computer is the victim of climate change....
or Net Neutrality
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