HEXUS forum flash ad help!

[kalniel]

The current intel flash ads on the forums are killing my machine.

While trying to type a quick reply IE is taking up 80+% CPU usage and my typed text lags badly.

[Grey M@a]

Yup, this happens on the works machine under xp with IE or FF and the same on the vista machine at home. It's the flash player, its utter toss and has far to big a memory footprint :/ Oh and it memory leaks all the time. About time adobe sorted out their act and fixed it.

[kalniel]

Most ads seem fine to be honest, it's the new VPRO ones that seem to be doing the damage.

Yikes.. just seen the memory footprint as well. I only have 512mb here and these things make me page

[Grey M@a]

Yeah its only certain adverts, the intel one, the new nvidia one I have come across and there is one for miniclip that all cause the same problem in the flash player and it takes memory like no tomorrow.

[Blackmage]

I've just notice that the intel ad increases the amount of time to load the page.

[moogle]

I hate the Chrysalis and Zombie ones. Keeps popping out onto the page. I know they are a premium but any more longer and I'll start blocking em till they've gone.

[smargh]

The NoScript extension for Firefox has "Forbid Adobe Flash" and "Apply these restrictions to trusted sites too" options. It puts a placeholder in place of all things plugin- and Flash-related which you have to click on for them to download and play - it works perfectly.

[DDY]

Can't use Firefox at work though, stuck with IE6 and a slow machine.

[tigerboyce]

The guitar hero one does my head in, it has a roll-over popout thingy, and it comes down right over the top of the buttons at the top of the forums, most annoyingly the 'new posts' button.

What's most annoying is that it has transparency so you think your clicking new posts but its actually the advert...

[moogle]

Originally Posted by tigerboyce

The guitar hero one does my head in, it has a roll-over popout thingy, and it comes down right over the top of the buttons at the top of the forums, most annoyingly the 'new posts' button.

What's most annoying is that it has transparency so you think your clicking new posts but its actually the advert...

same for the chrysalis ad, but no transparency. I miss the pc ad's....

[DR]

Guys



I am going to close this thread - there is constructive criticism and then just criticism.


We do our best to get relevant adverts by working closely with companies - we have a very strict series of guidelines which have to be met.


If an advert is killing your CPU load, this is of course a problem - and we will address it, however hating adverts because of other reasons are, I am afraid one of the things you need to keep to yourself.


cheers


David