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Using Chrome 64bit (my default browser) updated this morning on WIN7 Pro 64bit updated with November updates. I have Ad Blocker Plus, Flash Blocker, and Privacy Badger extensions installed in Chrome. I'm having a couple of issues that just started happening a few days ago.

 

One is on this site. My bookmark for SNL opens the All Things Windows sub-forum and opens properly and any post I click on work correctly. When I click on the "The Highlands" link near the top, the page displays all of the sub-forums. All of the sub-forum links work fine except for the "Forum Feedback" sub-forum. When I click on that link, the page freezes and no links work anywhere on the page and the sub-forum itself does not display. At that point I have to click on another bookmark to go to another website - the SNL bookmark takes me to the All Things Windows properly, Also, if I click on the Scot's Newsletter Forum link at the top of the page, the webpage freezes, and again I have to click on another bookmark to go to another site.

 

The other is when trying to view some videos from links on MSN.com. When I click on a link to a GeoBeats video, the webpage opens and the video player screen shows black with the Flash Blocker Icon in the middle of the video player screen (which is how Flash Blocker works). When I click on the Flash Blocker icon to approve the video, I get a rotating circle but the video doesn't start no matter how long I leave it on. This happens with other video webpages, but never on YouTube (at least not yet).

 

However, if I start IE11 and go to SNL everything works properly, and if I go to MSN.com videos and click on a GeoBeats video, it works properly.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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V.T. Eric Layton

I would start right off by:

 

1. delete ALL cookies, cached images/pages, and history from your browser

- a corrupted cookie, image, or some such could (and often does) gum up a browser's works

 

If that has no effect:

 

2. start disabling extensions that may be blocking scripts or website coding causing your issues

- my first suspect would be Privacy Badger

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Spoke too soon...

 

Privacy Badger is turned off for this site, as is Flashcontrol and Ad Blocker Plus. After clearing history, I exited Chrome. Started it back up and went to the ATW sub-forum. When I clicked on the Scots Newsletter Forum link at the top of the page, it worked and displayed the page. Then clicked on the link for The Restaurant sub-forum and then watched the YouTube video that Robert posted - yeah I'm a Star Wars fan. When I closed that tab - went to the YouTube direct link - and back to the SNL tab, the page froze as before??? Closed Chrome, reopened it, went to Settings and again cleared history. When I reopened the site everything works properly.

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Maybe it is just Google Chrome issue, I have gotten some 404 on some pages using Google Chrome ABP, ScriptSafe, and uBlock Origin and once in a while I get a 404, but this usually mostly happens on devices, iPhone and Kindle Fire. I just truncate the link name in the address back back to http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com and move on.

 

Have you tried with Firefox or Pale Moon, or Dolphin to see if it still happens. Don't forget you have to keep Flash updated for other browsers.

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Fran,

 

When I clicked on the link in your post, (open a new window) I get a 404. My only other browser is IE11, and the forum works properly on IE, Chrome is my default browser. Just now, I went to settings in Chrome and deleted history. Closed Chrome, reopened it and opened SNL to the ATW sub-forum. When I clicked on the Scot's Newsletter Forum link at the top of the window, that page opens properly. However after I browse any of the sub-forums, and read a post or two if I then click on the link to the main forum at the top of the page the screen freezes???

 

Edit: After posting this, I clicked on the Scot's Newsletter Forum link, and the screen froze...

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V.T. Eric Layton

Mac. You should probably disable ALL of your extensions in Chrome and see if you're still having and issue here at Scots. If you don't experience the issue with all your extensions disabled, then enable one and run around Scots for a while. If it doesn't mess up, disable that extension and enable the next one. ONLY run one extension at a time till you're sure that none of them are causing the problem.

 

Also, note... some extensions will interact with one another and cause problems. That complicates things even more because the testing of one at a time won't duplicate the problem, but the moment you fire up the two that interact, you'll experience it. This kind of problem can drive you nuts.

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V.T. Eric Layton

I know. I'm having a similar problem with my Chromium. One of my extensions is serving popup ads and I don't know which one. I'd actually have to sit all day and monitor Wireshark or some similar app to see which extension is phoning home. What I did instead was to use Adblock+ to block the site from where the ads are originating; not really a fix, more of a work-around.

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