k so i go to websites and GIFs like crash my computer...mostly the ad ones. so can you block just gifs? or can someone give me a ad-blocking program? please and thank you

you cant block certain files that are display (embedded) in a webpage, well not as far as i know anyway

as for ad blocking i find XP Pop Up block is good the one that comes with XP

If not try MSN or Google bar

no...it's not popups, its ads like on photobucket. icant access that page to upload concert pictures becuasemy computer crashes if its running the ad thing too long

That's strange that they crash you your computer
What browser do you use?

firefox
its like anything that moves hardcore...like movies hah
its just been ads recently..so thats what ill try. oh i found a program

Okay. I am using firefox too and I almost never see ads. I have Adblock and NoScript which block all the ads and pop-ups I think. Try them and see if they help. You will have to build up a list of filters in Adblock to get it to block most ads. I can give you my list if you need them. You can use "*" as a wildcard. eg: http://rad.msn.com/* (removes all ads in hotmail)

oh, okay. thanks a lot zach, ill try them out

Check out the Firefox forums, Marissa - there's heaps of threads, perhaps one will have a fix.

update your video card drivers. your computer is crashing cause your drivers are too out of date

Yeah, Adblock, then block *.gif

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update your video card drivers. your computer is crashing cause your drivers are too out of date

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you dont use windows xp embedded >.<

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update your video card drivers. your computer is crashing cause your drivers are too out of date

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hm can you tell me how?

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you dont use windows xp embedded >.<

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Does your computer crash when you go to those sites in IE? Or is just in Firefox? I would try a clean install. If that doesn't help it have a search for the solution on their forums.

You could just disable gif animation.

click,
start, run and type in
devmgmt.msc
then press enter
right click that, properties
click driver tab
and tell me the driver date and version

if anything
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel84...=graphics+845main&
and click Download the Intel Extreme Graphics Driver to update your drivers, cause i am almost certain they are out of date


and btw, i'd suggest to change the 'color quality' to 32 bit.. just so every thing looks nicer, wont help you with the crashing though

driver date: 6/21/2005
driver version: 6.14.10.4342

um i'll try the link you gave me..i think i downloaded that one :\
oh, and i changed it to 32bit...i dont see a difference
32bit = whoa better

Alright, to block ads, you should use AdBlock as stated before, but if you want to just be able to stop the gif animations, use this extension.
Also it might not be gif animations that are crashing your computer. They could be flash animations, in which case you can use AdBlock to get rid of, or use FlashBlock to block the flash animations.

Hope this helps.

yeahyeah! Ddunk suggested that, and that's what i meant when i said .gif...haha. well i'll try the flashblock, becuase i dont wanna not see gifs. thanks so much!

bump.

im pissed...im doing a freaking format. this computer sucks and when i try backing stuff up the thing turns off. so its definatly not an interne/firefox/flash/gif problem.

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Settings for Startup and Recovery

Uncheck the box that says Automatically Restart and click Ok.

Now visit a site that your computer crashes on. Yuor computer should Blue Screen giving you a Stop error code saying 0x000000CD or something like that just do a hard reboot after writing down the stop error code and post it here.

hm so nothing here helped. i begged matty in pm to help me before it crashed...forever! but he didnt reply, but what help would it do?
so we brought it to the little computer shop down the street, and he said it might be the video card so he put a new one in but nope...so he figured it might be the motherboard, but the boss that can changeit is in new york now. so we waited last thursday to today to see if it worked, but the boss left so yeah, the one guy thinks its the motherboard, ram, or something else, i forget ;p. he couldnt even get into bios :\ but its funny, i was in bios the morning beforei brought it in. so hmmm. anyways so thats a stupid problem eh? i guess a 3 year computer just started to deteriorate (spelling?) now im on some IBM windows 98 shit box...meh
[oh and the guy called me cute...ewewewewew]