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2004/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:31012 Activity:kinda low
6/25    Wow, that's neat.  Firefox 0.9 doesn't load http://drudgereport.com.
        (gets stuck loading the ad)  Is that a bug or a feature?
        \_ worked for me then i hit reload now it doesnt work. ff.9
           actually, it loaded just took a while. ie took a while as well.
        \_ Do you have http pipelining enabled?  Does it not work at all,
           or just take a very long time?  Finally, are you blocking the ads?
           I'm trying to reduce a test case; I've seen this on http://cnn.com too.
           \_ I turned on pipelining via modifying prefs.js, and it still
              takes ~ 30 seconds to load either way.  IE loads drudgereport
              right away.  Apparently the banner ad is slow -- this stalls
              firefox, but IE renders the rest of the page anyway.  The
              firefox pop-up blocker option on/off does not affect this.
              \_ The ad server seems not to be up at all. It stalls both
                 mozilla and IE for me.
              \_ Actually, I was thinking that pipelining was causing the
                 problem (eg, by forcing the page rendering to wait for the
                 img data)... also, about:config >>> prefs.js
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