Audio and Video Karma never finishes loading

[drussell]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I noticed today that these two forum sites never seem to finish loading data from various domain addresses (I think that's the correct term ). That the Firefox green tailchasing circular icon (the thing in the left part of the tab at the top of Firefox's screen) never stops spinning. Maybe I caught a virus, but other web sites are not doing this. I also see a box in the lower left of the Firefox window saying "Transferring data from images.sv.us.criteo.net..." right now (9:40 PM EDT, Sept 24th).

That is a poorly behaved advertising server that is being bloated and slow.
You could run something like Adblock Plus to eliminate the annoyance.
If you feel bad for disabling advertising on a good site, donate directly.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by drussell

You could run something like Adblock Plus to eliminate the annoyance...

Yep, recommended. Adblock Plus "ABP" definitely cleans things up. Seeing no problems with Firefox here. I used to occasionally see those never ending loading pages before ABP. Overall faster page loading too.

[drussell]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Yep, recommended. Adblock Plus "ABP" definitely cleans things up. Seeing no problems with Firefox here. I used to occasionally see those never ending loading pages before ABP. Overall faster page loading too.

Not only is it much faster and not wasting bandwidth by simply not loading the ads but it's also much safer to websurf with ABP enabled since malicious ads making it into the ad networks are a MAJOR attack vector these days....

[philcophan]

Another great Firefox Add on is Element hiding helper for Adblock... just drag a box around things you want to be free of (like the box directly above the my eBay page) click on it and poof... gone forever, never to return!!! Try it, you'll like it!!!!

Jim

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by drussell

That is a poorly behaved advertising server that is being bloated and slow.

Yes I reckon it may be!! (I notice it on AK lately a little)