MeMu Makes Me Sad

April 21, 2009 12:59 PM

Music pony request - make the MefiMusic home page not crash my browser. :(

Flash 10, Firefox 3, Debian 5.0.1, but the real problem is that my machine is over ten years old and wasn't that beefy then. Too many little flash players on one page just brings the browser crashing down. Individual music pages are ok, but the Music home page is not.

If it were possible to opt not to see the flash players on the home page, this would fix it. Similarly, if I could set how many recent posts I could see on the Music home page, this would also fix it, though I'd probably miss a lot of posts.

In the meantime I'm looking at trying to fiddle with adblock to just block the player on that page alone, but it's a pain, especially as I want the same player to work on individual post pages.

Any other suggestions for workarounds gratefully received.

posted by motty to feature requests at 12:59 PM (7 comments total)

If it were possible to opt not to see the flash players on the home page, this would fix it.

NoScript does that.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:02 PM on April 21

Install Flashblock.
posted by Pronoiac at 1:02 PM on April 21

Flashblock should also work.
posted by 6550 at 1:03 PM on April 21

Aww, man!
posted by 6550 at 1:03 PM on April 21

It's your future... I see a cab ride. Move out of the sticks, gentleman.
posted by Liver at 1:04 PM on April 21

There there, 6550.

Does the player pre-fetch data? I remember the podcasts page making IE shudder a bit, but that could have just been IE.
posted by Pronoiac at 1:24 PM on April 21

Noscript is a hammer to crack a nut here, as it breaks lots of the rest of the site.

I'll have a look at Flashblock.
posted by motty at 4:03 PM on April 21