Making site run faster
Submitted: Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:35
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Bob of KAOS
I kept getting system messages about my browser running flash and slowing things down. This was associated with episodes of the spinning beach ball (Mac OS 10.6.2) and Safari freezing temporarily.
I found
advice on how to delete Flash and now it runs much faster. Sadly, the Go Go dancer has Gone :-(
No doubt, you can do this on a Wintel too.The Flash player was a 13.7 MB plugin.
If I need to run Flash I will open the link in a different browser.
Reply By: Member - Teege (NSW) - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:43
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:43
Bob
I'm no expert, but is this one of the issues Steve Jobs ( Apple CEO) was whingeing about the other day? Apparently the new Ipad is not compatible with Adobe Flash because Jobs reckons it's rubbish.
teege
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Reply By: Member No 1- Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:27
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:27
I wonder how much extra download usage is used by having Flash Enabled.
Maybe David could tell us...
I err the kids keep going over the 25gig limit and then we are slowed (capped) so much that it stops a lot of emails coming down cos the server kicks me off cos of "outlook timeout"
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Reply By: Ozhumvee - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:45
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:45
You can also install add ons to the browser which stop all the ads and flash stuff and speed things up considerably.
With firefox I've got Adblock and Flashblock which stop most of the crap and speed things up no end.
With the flash stuff you get a logo which you can click to get something to run on that one occasion. works a treat.
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Follow Up By: Road Warrior - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:26
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:26
Agreed I downloaded Flashblock and it made a huge difference. Some annoying ads still get through but not like before where there were dozens of them on some sites that start chewing up your CPU.
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Follow Up By: Member - Flynnie (NSW) - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:21
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:21
I run XP Pro and Firefox browser. I have found disabling Javascript stops the Lynx ad. Don't seem to be missing anything much else. Can always turn it on if something is not working.
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:48
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:48
This sounds to me like there is a faulty ad in the network - can anyone tell me what ads or on the screen when the message appears - I can then advise the agency to remove the faulty ad from the network.
As far as deleting flash this will also start to stop the latest round of upload
tools I have been developing - this is not released as yet but has been in development for some time. I may have to rethink the uploader however there is no easy answer in terms of client to server uploads that work
well - hence I decided on flash. Lets see if we can identify the ad initially.
David
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:50
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:50
I get it with the ANZ one.
HTH
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:54
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:54
Damn I hope its not the Lynx girl, she's been more entertainment than many other posts on here for quite awhile. :-)
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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 13:04
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 13:04
David the Westpac and the Commonwealth Adds were up when I got the message.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz Team - Damian - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 13:07
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 13:07
The Woolworths Everyday Mobile Ad on the right hand side and Westpac ad at the bottom of the page.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 14:02
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 14:02
I have just advised the agency to fix or pull the westpac ad (it appears to be the common link). We will see what happens when this is resolved.
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Feb 05, 2010 at 15:47
Friday, Feb 05, 2010 at 15:47
Hi David
As below, I am using IE 6 and find the site intolerably slow; particularly when typing a reply. I have been getting "the message" over the past few days, and it is usually there when i return after leaving the computer for a while. Today it came up while i was here, and the adverts running were Commonwealth Bank, and Qantas-AMEX card.
When i get the message, i say yes to abort the script, but i have to close down all applications open in IE to be able to continue. Leaving ExOz open while i am doing other things and 'popping in' every now and then is no longer an option.
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Reply By: Motherhen - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:14
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:14
Is this the message you are getting?
Image Could Not Be Found
I am using IE 6 and ExplorOz has been so slow that i give up some days. I have been getting this message for a couple of days - usually when i return to my computer the message is there.
Typing into ExOz has been tediously slow for me for months.
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:17
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:17
Yep that is the one MH
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:20
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 at 20:20
I'm glad my response got there - it totally froze my IE on all sites.
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