Is that countdown widget freezing anyone's browser?

[Lazy Leopard]

Anyone else noticed the main YW.net forum page causing browser freezes? I've had FireFox on my iMac freeze up ("Application not responding") a few times recently, and the only pattern I think I can see is that it happens when I have the forum's main index showing. My hunch is that it's connected with the countdown widget, because that's the only thing actually doing something. However, I have no supporing evidence, and it could all be pure coincidence...

[Sean L.]

Although we don't seem to have ch. 4 yet and the countdown is complete, my MacbookPro handles the page fine without crashing.

[EricG1793]

It seems as though it doesn't take much to freeze up a Mac, but that's a discussion for elsewhere....

I don't have any issues on my HP Pavilion laptop, using Firefox 2.0.0.8, and Windows Vista Home Premium.

[Lazy Leopard]

Oh, it's not the Mac that freezes, just FireFox, and I strongly suspect Shockwave/Flash is the real culprit. Perhaps I should install NoScript and tell it to block the Flash. That way I'd find out whether it really is the widget causing the trouble...

[Kathy Li]

I'm on a MacBook, and the front page (while it took a while to load) looks fine to me and didn't cause browser crash in either Firefox or Safari. There has been sme problem with Flash and browsers on Intel macs. You might want to try updating, or running Firefox in Rosetta mode (get info/General properties).

[meteorite]

I run Firefox with NoScript, and the countdown widget has never made my computer lock up. I surf ebay a lot, and don't like some of the random wandering scripts they have there; too easy to have someone install nasties on an unprotected computer. NoScript helps a lot with that.

Kli6, be well. We hope the fires all die soon.