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The new Kokanee ads on dropzone.com and basejumper.com seem to be killing Chrome and Safari on Windows, and Firefox and Safari on the Mac. The only way I could get this posted was to use Internet Explorer on Windows. Otherwise, the site starts out okay, but gets rapidly slower, until it's completely unusable within a few seconds.

Michael

Are you sure?

I'm running Safari (mac) on both sites without any issues.

I have Firefox on a Mac G5 w/ DSL.

Site speed seems normal, however

I do not recall see any Kokanee ads.

Ah, could be OS 10.4 vs. 10.5? I just tried Safari 4 on 10.5, and it works fine, but got reports from Jason that Safari 4 on 10.4 was hanging the same as Chrome is on my XP machine.


Are you using an ad blocker? The only ads I get on either site these days are the Kokanee ones at the top and left.

Definitely still getting the same issue with Chrome. The spinning numbers start out normal, then get jumpier and jumpier until the whole process grinds to a complete halt.

Michael

Firefox version 2.0.0.20

MAC OS X version 10.3.9

Do not know of any ad blocking...

At the moment I am getting Google
ads on top and bottom, all for SKY
jumping, suits, etc.

I want to upgrade my OS so the wife
and I can watch 'The Office' on Hulu
but heard it fucks up everything else.

True or false?

I hadn't thought of it before, but I think Kokanee is a Canadian beer, so there may be a regional aspect to the displayed ads.


Define "everything". I use OS 10.5 for a pretty limited set of tasks, but it performs admirably. My only real beef is that they decided to make all the home folder icons gray, instead of coloured, which makes them more difficult to distinguish visually.

Michael

It just occured to me that the Kokanee ads may be regional. I think the site itself is working fine, but these particular ads seem to be causing a problem. Are you seeing the same ads?

Michael

What if you installed Adblock Plus for Firefox. I have that on both my Mac and PC and hardly ever see any annoying internet ads on this or most any other site.

Just a thought.

- nick

Ah, thanks for the screen shots. I'll let you know when the problem should be solved.

Mainly because I prefer Chrome in general. As a programmer, switching browsers just to fix non-standard behaviour in an ad seems deeply unsatisfying.


No problem. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. A problem as repeatable as this one is always a pleasant surprise.

Michael

Ok, i have an update for you. The Kokanee ads will still be showing, but over the next couple of days the performance of the loading of the ads should increase.

Let me know how it is doing on your side ^_^

The Kokanee ads now load perfectly on Chrome. Still having problems with Safari 4 on Windows XP. Will check on OS 10.5 later.

Michael

I may have spoken too soon. One thing I noticed yesterday is that I never saw the banner ad across the top. Today it's there again, and Chrome seems to be having trouble.

Michael

Thanks. They have swapped the ads at around Friday, but if its still giving problems, we need another approach. I'll keep you posted.