What is it with this tag.admeld.com?

[sleep envy]

It keeps making explorer crash?!?!?

[V8mate]

Yep - completely crashes IE at work several times a day. No problem on Firefox (with ad-blocker) at home.

[Switch]

Could you let us know what versions of internet explorer you're using?
And any other information you might have, thread etc?

[V8mate]

IE8.

Almost exclusively happens on the 'thank you for posting' page, when I try to move on.

[sleep envy]

Both 7 & 8 depending on which machine I use.

As for thread it doesn't matter, it keeps trying to upload so unless I press the big red X up the top of the bar it'll crash if I move away from that page.

[Johnnytheboy]

I had this before and reported it:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[sleep envy]

Has been going on for a good while

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[sleep envy]

Any ideas with this as it's really irritating?

[aw51 121565]

I use Firefox 18.0.2 and haven't noticed the reported problem on here - but I tried getting on to the 'travel news' page of my online local rag this evening and noticed that it hung on "waiting for: tag.admeld.com" then crashed Firefox (it usually grinds to a halt on the 'news' front page of that site anyway, then usually splutters slowly ahead again in eighteenth gear after a minute or so and stays at the point of stalling for several minutes - but I've not noticed any "waiting for: ... " messages while it has been auto-asphyxiating until today).

So it's not just IE affected ?

"Admeld" is something to do with 'targetted advertising' apparently / - and crashes the (expletive deleted) browser ?!?!! Talk about a parasite killing its host!

This thread is 6th or 7th in the google search for tag.admeld.com, btw .

[sleep envy]

It's still irritating.

[V8mate]

And today.

Still, for me, only happens when I try to navigate away from the 'thanks for posting' page though.

[sleep envy]

sleep envy said:

It's still irritating.

And today too.

[anonymous-user]

sleep envy said:

Both 7 & 8 depending on which machine I use.

As for thread it doesn't matter, it keeps trying to upload so unless I press the big red X up the top of the bar it'll crash if I move away from that page.

And 9, if it starts happening then you can prevent it by pressing "Stop" once the main text on each page loads, but it's pretty irritating.

I think it must be one of the ads that loads halfway down each forum page.

[rohrl]

This is making the site almost unusable for me at the moment.

I don't have a choice about whether I use Internet Explorer, the most widely-used browser in the world by the way.

The excuse that PH "doesn't control" the ads is a bit crap really.

[Switch]

I have notified our ad man. (Or more to be specific his boss) and they're investigating. I'll let you know if I have any news.

[anonymous-user]

Still happening

[V8mate]

Driving me round the bloody twist at the moment. Crashes every page.

I had to use Google search to reach this page to post as I couldn't navigate the site.

Edited by V8mate on Tuesday 26th February 15:54

[Gatsby]

Getting ridiculous now. Every time I open a thread and then try to go back.

[Cunning Punt]

I've never encountered this problem, but then I avoid using IE. For those who have no choice, this might help:

Go to Tools menu -> Internet Options -> Content tab -> Content Advisor/Settings -> Approved Sites





Type in

*.admeld.com

and click "Never".


You might also need to go to the General tab ( Content Advisor Settings -> General ) and check 'Users can see websites that have no rating'.
Not sure how necessary that last part is.


Should fix it. I think. Hopefully.



FAO Admin : quick (unrelated) bug report in passing. Apparently I can't use more than one instance of the {{{ Code }}} formatting tag per post. Subsequent instances are replaced with a [NOWIKI] string. Not exactly high priority, but still...

[V8mate]

It's happening again.

I can't play with my IE settings; all locked down.