[Closed] Mac 'wheel of death' and Singletrackworld

There seems to be an ad on the right - under 'search forum' which seems to be failing to load and causing the page to hang. Don't know what the ad is for as all I see in a blank space ready for it to appear.

Even as a 'P' I'm having to kill 'Safari Web Content' a few times in Activity Monitor just to be able to get logged in

Same here on safari. Just have to close tab and reopen until it works. I think it might be the big banner ad at the top not loading?

I'm getting the banner ad at the top - but its been a different ad each time I've had issues.

Use Chrome it works fine 😛

Yep - same here. Bloody annoying!!

As an owner of a magic blue P, and therefore a superior human being, I am unaffected by the concerns of the common peasantry 😀

yep, me too. after a few 'close safari' and opens, it just totally borks safari until i restart my laptop.

working better now i've installed chrome, but hey ho...

No never but with a P I have ads turned off.

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I get pretty consistent "The operation could not be completed" popups on Safari on iPad, it's some advert that causes the Javascript engine to overrun its built-in time limit for scripts. All browsers have this: it's to stop scripts getting into a never ending loop and hanging the browser.

It needs STW to tell the advertisers to sort things out: it's in both their interests as such behaviour puts the company being advertised in a bad light.

Anyone else having this, and any easy cures?

As an owner of a magic blue P, and therefore a superior human being, I am unaffected by the concerns of the common peasantry

It'll stop you from logging in though - so your Magic Blue P will be stuck behind a Login link that can't be clicked.

But, Shirley, you only need to log in one time, so it's not a problem.

Right?

Even logged in & all the ads turned off, (all), my MacBook starts running hot until the fans kick in.
Doesn't happen on the iMac or iPad.
Don't have any trouble logging in.

I've had it in Firefox when logged in - shutting FF down and logging back in seemed to cause the ad/tracker/whatever causing the problem to be changed to another one that works.

No problem with STW (it's the P you know), but Autotrader is giving me headaches with that issue just now.

I've had a couple of complete lock ups this week on Chrome (not while on STW) that required a power button reset (couldn't even get to the force quit menu). That's pretty much unheard of on the mac for me. Buggy ads or something changed in the OS/Browser/Java?

Happens to me on safari on MBP; only started yesterday.

I had the same problems in Safari. Firefox doesn't give me the wheel of death, however in activity monitor, CPU processor % is 70%+. Try private browsing instead, you'll lose quite a few of the advert banners which will help.

gofasterstripes - Member
But, Shirley, you only need to log in one time, so it's not a problem.

Right?

Apparently thats the case..... 🙄

The only site I frequent that ever says 'Slow script' (Mac and Safari if that matters).

I notice on chrome that the pages seem to refresh repeatedly when viewing. Whilst the page itself scrolls fine f9r reading, the page icon in the tab at the top will blink and animate the same way that it would when it's loading the page first time round.

The ads are definitely driving more data than they need to. I have no issue with ads loading once when you view the page, but repeated loading is a bit sneaky.

So I'm guessing while writing the post you took the time to mail stw with the details of the problem....

It'll stop you from logging in though - so your Magic Blue P will be stuck behind a Login link that can't be clicked.

Bookmark singletrackworld.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=forum/forum, it'll take you to the forum if you're logged in and an ad-free login page if you aren't.