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sdowney717
December 17th, 2012, 07:47 PM
Everything was ok until I visited this site.
Clicking on videos shows a black window only, then CPU spikes up to 100%

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/hulu-revenue-695m-million-subscribers-17999718#.UM9oOWKIj8h

Then I closed the page and it is back to normal.

Does that site do the same to you?

first shows what it did, second after i closed the page
monkeybrain2012
December 17th, 2012, 08:28 PM
No. it just says I am outside the U.S hence has no access. I then close it and that's it. Nothing unusual.
KiwiNZ
December 17th, 2012, 08:34 PM
It works fine, loads OK, links work, videos work but with no Stop Ads button. No CPU or memory hit.
monkeybrain2012
December 17th, 2012, 08:45 PM
Oh I see. The ABC news videos all work fine. Nothing strange.
sdowney717
December 17th, 2012, 10:10 PM
Who knows why?
All I see is black screen where video should be.
very mysterious, running 64 bit 12.04
all other videos work.

I do have an issue with Reuters video, all I get is endless cycle of adds.
sdowney717
December 17th, 2012, 10:13 PM
Also, these videos just blackness
Click an inline video, turns into black square.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/west-african-teen-invents-gadgets-scrap-metal-visits/story?id=17877827&page=2#.UM-KjmKIj8g
monkeybrain2012
December 17th, 2012, 11:13 PM
Get bored and tested on another machine as well. All your links work fine.
sdowney717
December 17th, 2012, 11:16 PM
Tried Firefox and get the same.
I run 64 bit Ubuntu.
screaminj3sus
December 18th, 2012, 01:00 AM
worked totally fine for me with google chrome on ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
Frogs Hair
December 18th, 2012, 01:52 AM
Works fine on 12.10 64.bit Crome build 23.0.1271.97
monkeybrain2012
December 18th, 2012, 02:28 AM
Don't work in Firefox though. Probably require higher version of flash than 11.2
sdowney717
December 18th, 2012, 02:52 AM
Don't work in Firefox though. Probably require higher version of flash than 11.2

Could be? I rebooted and with just one tab open in firefox it does not load video. And it is using flash 11.2
sdowney717
December 18th, 2012, 02:56 AM
Just tested with chrome again and with only a few tabs open, I got a visible error
CharlesA
December 18th, 2012, 03:13 AM
Why do I have a feeling this is due to the problem with firefox sucking up so much memory.

Try creating a new profile and see if that fixes it.
Lucradia
December 18th, 2012, 03:37 PM
If you can't see videos, don't use hosts file. It causes the adserver not to send the proper authentication to the player to make it play. While adblock just hides ads / etc. and still lets the server mitigate.

Weather channel's website does this too, so does NBC's website. It's an anti-hosts file movement by ad companies.