Ab Seizing Up ..

[jomifl]

AB seizes up within a minute or so of my visiting and has done so for some time...any chance of this being rectified...but not by me?

[jno]

it's fine for me (desktop, W8, Firefox). Perhaps you could say how you're accessing it (what platform, what browser etc).

[grasscarp]

I have this all the time. I click on things and it says Answerbank is not responding. I cant even close the page without going to task manager. It happens at work and home and on any browser.

[hereIam]

Ditto.

[aelmpvw]

no probs here with chrome and win 10

[Buenchico]

Which browser are you using? Using Internet Explorer (for any website) is little short of madness. Edge might be slightly better but Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi, Avant or, indeed, anything not from ruddy Microsoft are all far, far better. (That assumes that you're using a PC anyway, rather than, say, an Android tablet or an iPad).

I use Firefox (with that-which-shall-not-be-named-here installed) without any problems.

[donny48]

I too am with Chrome and 10 with no problems.

[hereIam]

Firefox and I still have problems.

[Buenchico]

Have you got 'that-which-shall-not-be-named-here' installed, HereIam?

[Prudie]

Ther is one answer and we're not allowed to say it. Something needs to be done.

[hereIam]

Sorry, I don't know what you mean ...

[dannyk13]

I have occasionally had the same problem and for some reason it always occurred around 9am.

[Baldric]

BT, W10, Chrome + that wot cannot be named = No problems here.

[jomifl]

W10 firefox.. and it is staying that way for the forseeable future. Other browsers give me worse problems than a sticky AB. I think it is up to AB to fix this.....not me.

[Buenchico]

HereIam:
There are loads of hints in this thread (or, far easier, simply skip to Sci-Fi's post at the end of it!):
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Internet/Question1511949.html

[Buenchico]

Joimifl:
The relevant Firefox extension may well solve your problems. (See above).

Also, the new version of The Answerbank (which has been in development for much of this year) will hopefully be available soon.

[grasscarp]

But if it is a browser etc problem why does this only and always happen when looking at Answerbank?

[dannyk13]

Don't think that it is a browser problem.I have Google Chrome and Firefox and when it has happened to me it has affected both browsers.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Grasscarp:
It's almost certainly because the content for each page here is drawn from a ridiculously large number of different servers (with most of them, understandably, delivering up ads).

Let's hope that the new version of AB reduces the number of different sources required to fully load an AB page or possibly (even better) embeds the ads into a page before it's sent out for reading (in the way that Facebook does with ads). That way we'll get faster loading pages and The Editor can be sure that we'll actually see the ads (because ad blockers can only block content served up by third party servers, not from the actual site which is being viewed).

[grasscarp]

That's what I was thinking Chris. Thank you for writing it.

[zebo]

So glad to read these, thought it was just me. I start typing then it stops allowing me, the blue circle spins for a while then I can write a bit more and so on. Using IE and 10, doesn't happen on other sites. Naturally, it's not done it now!