Problems with Yahoo home page
Posted by: TomK on 03 December 2008
I've been using uk.yahoo.com as my home page for ages now but recently I've found that the graphics used for the main ad are causing real performance problems quite regularly. It seemed to start with a Littlewoods ad a few weeks ago, carried on intermittently and tonight it's O2. When that ad's displayed the system slows down and task manager shows Firefox using 99% of the processor. Closing that window clears things. The same thing happens with IE. Can anybody suggest either how to disable these sorts of graphics, or perhaps a new home page as I quite like Yahoo? I'm running Zone Alarm plus various antivirus and spyware software so I don't think there's anything of that sort going on.
Cheers.
Tom.
Posted on: 03 December 2008 by garyi
Why don't you run an ad blocker, fire fox has plenty?
Posted on: 04 December 2008 by Adam Meredith
You could try the add-on No Script - for FireFox. This should allow you to decide what runs on pages and has proved pretty easy to use without too much bother since I installed it.
CS Lite is useful for cookies.
Posted on: 04 December 2008 by TomK
I've just installed Ad Blocker which seems to be the most commonly used. We'll see how it goes but so far it doesn't appear to have blocked the offending stuff.
Posted on: 04 December 2008 by TomK
I now have Ad Blocker and No Script installed and together they seem to do the trick. Thanks for the help. I'd assumed that all the other bits of anti virus and spyware software I was running would do this.
Ironically the site most affected by No Script was this one. It virtually disappeared until I explicitly allowed it within No Script.
Posted on: 04 December 2008 by Adam Meredith
