Thai Ads Screwing With Browing In Firefox

[RLM2008]

Anyone else noticed this. On forum pages with thai ads like this one http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-82415.html the cursor starts flickering like mad. It doesn't just effect one window, but all other open windows.

If I go to that example link through a proxy (no thai ads) the problem disappears.

RLM

[welo]

The linked website just has a view Google ads. (btw your are linking to the archive version without ads)

Use http://www.thumbalizr.com/ to compare a 'public' screenshot to yours.

welo

[bkkjames]

The linked website just has a view Google ads. (btw your are linking to the archive version without ads)

Use http://www.thumbalizr.com/ to compare a 'public' screenshot to yours.

welo

I noticed this last week with IE on Bkpost website for example, not with Firefox. However, with Firefox, occaisionly I run into the issue of having to click out of the page (to another open document or window) and then back in order to click and open an item on the page.

[bkk_mike]

The linked website just has a view Google ads. (btw your are linking to the archive version without ads)

Use http://www.thumbalizr.com/ to compare a 'public' screenshot to yours.

welo

That explains why I saw no adverts on the link.

Had thought my adblock had blocked them. Admittedly, is it only a problem in IE, as I don't see anything wrong in Firefox (removed the /archive from the web address - to get the main page)

[welo]

My question to the OP. Did Google show you some Thai ads or did something else modify the page to include more ads? Maybe I'm paranoid... (The latter would indicate a malware infection or some other wicked thing going on.)

welo

(Did I really write 'a view Google ads'? wicked as well! )

[RLM2008]

Not sure about the google bit. The ad in this case is a thai advert for a HP Pavilion laptop. If you go to the main site (non-archived) there's also Thai ads, but no problem there.

Get the problem with that HP ad in firefox and IE.

I've been searching around the last few weeks on various forums etc and encountered the problem a number of times.

Here's another one. I use this page quite often and it's only recently that the issue's cropped up

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/redev2.shtml

EDIT: Welo thanks for the thumbalizr link.

RLM

[Supernova]

Not sure about the google bit. The ad in this case is a thai advert for a HP Pavilion laptop. If you go to the main site (non-archived) there's also Thai ads, but no problem there.

Get the problem with that HP ad in firefox and IE.

I've been searching around the last few weeks on various forums etc and encountered the problem a number of times.

Here's another one. I use this page quite often and it's only recently that the issue's cropped up

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/redev2.shtml

RLM

The issue is with Flash; disable Flash in IE and the problem goes away. I would assume the same applies to Firefox; however, I'm using an add-on which filters out ads so I don't have this problem in Firefox.

[RLM2008]

The issue is with Flash; disable Flash in IE and the problem goes away. I would assume the same applies to Firefox; however, I'm using an add-on which filters out ads so I don't have this problem in Firefox.

I don't think it's a problem with flash, and I'd be missing a whole heap of content in my browsing if I did switch it off. I suspect it's more likely a case of bad actionscripting.

Rather than me having to turn it off, they should pull the ad and fix it.

That said, I may consider going back to ad blocking.

Edit:

This is a grab of the offending ad

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8748/hpad.jpg

You can move the little hand about in the ad, and I'm guessing this is where the conflict is.

RLM

[welo]

OK, tried several times and finally got the ad to show up, and could reproduce the problem.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/redev3.shtml

you might have to reload several times, the ad is not always shown. On my Firefox main profile (no adblocker) it NEVER showed up, probably a gmail cookie identifying me as english speaker or whatever.

Both Firefox 3.6 and IE 8.0.7600.16385 have the problem, Chrome 4.0.249.78 has not. Flash version is 10,0,32,18 on all browsers. Updated IE to the most recent version (10.0.42.34), no improvement.

It seems definitely Flash related. Other ads that use plain images don't cause flickering. Can't tell if it's only this specific Flash movie or others, too.

It is probably bad programming but I would consider it also a Flash bug, since it should not allow movies to affect behavior outside the movie stage.

I guess the ad will disappear sooner or later, or Adobe will fix the bug

welo