GAF ads started crashing my browsers

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When I use Firefox, my main browser, ads never seem to completely load as it never stops transferring data. This causes a cpu spike and memory leak and the entire Browser hangs. It was fine 24 hours ago. If I switch to Chrome, the ads don't even load half the time and as other have stated, its just a blank box where they should be.

Something is really messed up.
 
Investigating. We've just updated the ad tags recently, so that's probably the culprit.
 
I've just disabled flash, before that my browser was using 2.5 gigs of RAM and another 600 MB for the flash plugin container. And now it's down to 700 for the browser. crazy.

I'm not sure if it's the ads only though. will have to try something out. I am using Firefox.
 
Yep, same problem here on Opera, Firefox and Chrome.
Constant ad reloading, browser process using ~25% CPU, eventually crashing.
 
Me too. They don't seem to load properly but looking at the web inspector I see it's loading nested iframes, probably causing some form of stack overflow.
 
RoadHazard said:
Opera uses the very same rendering engine as Chrome these days (Blink, which is a fork of WebKit), so I don't see why there would be any major differences.
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Because I WAS using Firefox, not Chrome. Firefox was using tons of CPU resources and up to 4 or 5 gigs of RAM, slowing my laptop to unusable levels.

Opera isn't perfect but that issue is resolved. I haven't tried Chrome.
 
It didn't crash my browser (Chrome user) but the cpu usage shot up out of nowhere and it made my PC make loud, whirring noises. It happened several times yesterday. It seems to be fixed now, though.
 
The consistently dubious advertisements on gaf has forced me to download adblock for the very first time. Let me know when you can promise we won't get re-directed to scamware sites.
 
Yeah, it's horrible, it shot up my firefox's RAM usage to 2 GB (!) before Firefox shut down itself. Someone suggested using the mobile version, but the forum does not allow me to enter the gaming forum in its mobile form, it automatically redirects me to the standard-version.
 
I'm glad I saw this thread. I thought something was wrong with my PC. Firefox was taking up over 3GB of RAM. I had to switch over to Chrome because GAF was grinding my PC down to a halt.

Any idea when this will be fixed? I would much rather use FF over Chrome.
 
From my tests it only happened in the threads listing. Some ad-related javascript gets in some sort of a endless loop making requests, which causes the actual ad to never load (it's loading is replaced by a new one several times a second) and the browser co keep allocating new connections and javascript objects until it runs out of RAM. CPU usage will also keep increasing as the connections pile up.

Mikef2000 said:
I'm glad I saw this thread. I thought something was wrong with my PC. Firefox was taking up over 3GB of RAM. I had to switch over to Chrome because GAF was grinding my PC down to a halt.

Any idea when this will be fixed? I would much rather use FF over Chrome.
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If also affects Chrome (open the developer console and you'll see it). You just don't see the address bar refreshing, which means you also can't stop the connections, which you can in FF by pressing "stop" right after the page has loaded.

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mysteriousmage09 said:
When I use Firefox, my main browser, ads never seem to completely load as it never stops transferring data. This causes a cpu spike and memory leak and the entire Browser hangs. It was fine 24 hours ago. If I switch to Chrome, the ads don't even load half the time and as other have stated, its just a blank box where they should be.

Something is really messed up.
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I've seen it as well, the last loop was with ads trying to reach a doubleclick host.

GAF gets into an endless loop, spikes CPU and RAM.

At that point, one of two things happens:

1) Flash crashes
2) Chrome runs out of memory and crashes
 
Are people still having it happen? I've only been getting black boxes since last night. (AdBlock is disabled for GAF. I just double-checked.) Maybe it's region based?

When I "Inspect Element" on the black box it just has an empty DIV container with an ID of "cdm-zone-01" inside another empty DIV with the Class "goodie728" all inside a single DIV with an ID of "alpha". (At the bottom though it's "zone-04" and "charlie" instead of "alpha". Bravo, guys. Bravo.)
 
Oh is that all you get? The ads prevent Opera 12 from loading the page four times out of five, and prevent the back button from working properly.

That, and the ads use an iframe. An iframe.
 
M3d10n said:
From my tests it only happened in the threads listing. Some ad-related javascript gets in some sort of a endless loop making requests, which causes the actual ad to never load (it's loading is replaced by a new one several times a second) and the browser co keep allocating new connections and javascript objects until it runs out of RAM. CPU usage will also keep increasing as the connections pile up.



If also affects Chrome (open the developer console and you'll see it). You just don't see the address bar refreshing, which means you also can't stop the connections, which you can in FF by pressing "stop" right after the page has loaded.

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Yep. You are right. This is very annoying. I have resorted to using mobile GAF.

Any idea if this is fixable?
 
Chrome was crashing like mad a couple days ago for me. Something here was doing it since I wasn't having any of those issues on other sites. Today and yesterday were fine tho.

Edit: And no the column thing is NOT fixed for me like was just posted in the thread that just locked.
 
big_z said:
Just saw this thread and my browser crashed.
Using win7 IE11, usually it hangs the browser for a while and then it works again or the tab will recover itself.
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This. On IE11 it always seems to happen when I click a link. The window hangs for about 5 minutes, memory usage jacks up a full gigabyte. Eventually I'll force close the window or it'll recover and things will go back to normal.
 
I'm still getting weird toolbar. Cleared cache, changed browsers to one that had never seen GAF before. Still weird column toolbar.
 
SRG01 said:
Oh is that all you get? The ads prevent Opera 12 from loading the page four times out of five, and prevent the back button from working properly.

That, and the ads use an iframe. An iframe.
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What's wrong with an iframe? It's a perfectly cromulent way of displaying ads and content without embedding it online in the page code.
 
Spent a good portion of last night cleaning out PUPs I'm pretty sure originated here. Same symptoms as described in the thread.

Check your browser extensions, then be prepared to use malwarebytes, spybot, and combofix if needed.
 
Oh, so that's what was happening yesterday. Seems to be fixed now, but the spot where the ad would be is blank now...

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Nibel said:
Aw okay, it seems to be fixed now :)
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Yeah same here. Ads aren't showing up even though I have GAF white listed and everything is speedy again. There was a memory leak or something because Firefox would balloon to almost 3gb RAM usage and insane CPU usage when I checked it in task manager while running GAF.
 
Syriel said:
I get the same.

GAF probably just shut off all ads while the issue is resolved.
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Yeah, seems to be resovled for now. Hopefully they can fix it so that ads come back.

Chrome is now only taking up 3-4% of cpu resources as opposed to 20-40%.
 
gaf is starting to crash mine almost daily, i've tried using different browsers but it seems that the ad's are causing them all to crash.
 
Happened to me too. Firefox lags my computer tremendously while I browse NeoGAF.

Seems to be gone today though.
 
I'm getting similar issues this week as well. Certain GAF threads cause my CPU usage to jump up to 40% and memory usage to increase dramatically while browsing becomes unresponsive. Happens in all browsers.
 
Could this have something to do with all these super shitty, obnoxious accidentally-mouse-over-and-they-expand-and-disable-the-rest-of-the-site ads that I'm becoming increasingly exasperated by?
 
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