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Video ad slows down gardenweb

Toronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis

14 years ago

Darn, I can watch Netflix while playing Music through Youtube of a Yahoo Chess game w/o problems but loading the darn video hangs up or causes my Mozilla, Chrome, and IE browsers to at best pause and at worst lock up.

Maybe its a problem with the host server for these ads. I can load almost any of the tacky myspace profiles w/o problems so honest this isn't on my end and it causes me to use this board less.

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greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
14 years ago
Ditto that!
GardenWeb is one of the few web-sites that crashes my browser.....it is a jealous site, and won't tolerate any other open windows! As soon as I log in, the count-down begins ;) How many responses can I make before the whole thing freezes up, I always wonder. As a result, I choose not to log-in when I'm simply reading Threads.

Secondly, these Playtex side-ads probably wouldn't be *as offensive* if I actually had a pair of breasts. I understand that "sex sells" - at GardenWeb as at anywhere - but this really is ridiculous.

Josh
brandon7 TN_zone7
14 years ago
I surf with Firefox and Adblock and rarely experience any slowdowns. Having multiple windows open changes nothing for me. I never see any ads on Gardenweb. Life is good (knocking on lignified plant material).
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shortleaf2002
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In my experience just having a computer lacking in specs can slow the experience down, especially with video going.
I have 3 computers, 1 is a dinosaur that I don't use anymore, 1 is about +7 years old and this one is fairly newer. I noticed the +7 year old one plays video poorly, usually jerky and pausing to buffer all the time (and sometimes for minutes at a time).
I attribute it to that older computer only having 256 kb of ram, where my newest one has 2 gb of ram and video plays fine on it. But yeah, Gardenweb isn't too friendly when it comes to all that, they'll load everything up. I remember when I had to use dial-up on GW, every click took like 5 minutes.
Marie Tulin
14 years ago
You folks with problems really need to install ad-blockers and use mozilla. I'm absolutely not a computer geek, but the fix is simple. I remember very well how my computer would grind to a halt when one of stupid video ads would appear.

Don't delay! Take action- .

disclaimer: I do not work for Mozilla.
BTW- I don't have tivo, so imagine how many ads I watch on my single night of commercial tv (Mondays, "The Closer") there must be a dozen.
Toronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
Original Author
14 years ago
Will ad blockers work for the "flat" embedded ads like the playtex one off on the right of the screen?

My PC isn't new. But it is a Dell P4 2.8Ghz has 2.25GB of Ram. In my experience I can watch Youtube and, AND, Netflix at the same time in different mozilla tabs without the lag I get on Gardenweb. Heck, half the time I'll have something in Excel open in the background or a WWII game, and it all works until I try gardenweb by itself.

So, I assume its gardenweb or their advertisers and this is a pretty simple site. Not like I'm loading up rotating video cubes from Photobucket or interactive 3d game worlds here, just sloppy programming.
pineresin
14 years ago
One other tip: disable or uninstall Adobe Flash.

Resin
laceyvail 6A, WV
14 years ago
I'm on dial-up, and you think you have problems!

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