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hanging whenever visit the tamil news site

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why it was hanging whenever i visit tamil news website even two or three taps open taking long time to respond

this is the website i visited http://www.dinakaran.com http://www.dailythanthi.com http://www.maalaimalar.com/

why it was hanging whenever i visit tamil news website even two or three taps open taking long time to respond this is the website i visited http://www.dinakaran.com http://www.dailythanthi.com http://www.maalaimalar.com/

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You can check the server response in the Network Monitor.

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Ok i will delete unwanted bookmarks

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Try deleting your search history since having a lot of history tends to cause these kind of problems.

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i don't have a lot of history because i deleted often so it was not a problem i think the website have a issue or i am using adblocker the website have a lot of ads so that it hangs

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As a test, Load the web page. After the page is loaded, click the down arrow next to the AdBlock icon. Now select Disable on <web site>.

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why this videos not supported

What happen if the downloads are failed in midway is that firefox delete hole file are it was left in drive

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very slow i don't have many taps just two taps it hanging again and again i really hate it

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That is about the HTML5 media player. Windows XP doesn't have built-in support for playing MP4 files and Firefox relies on built-in OS support to play media files via the HTML5 media player, so you are likely out-of-luck when only the HTML5 media player can be used to play the media file and not a plugin based player like the Shockwave Flash plugin.

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You can use an extension to switch between the Flash player and the HTML5 media player on the YouTube website. YouTube Flash Video Player: