Hi,
<rand with a small point..>
Would anyone else like a feature to *completely* freeze processing of anything (loading, running an SWF movie, MIDI, or other graphic file) within a window, except for scrolling? I was looking at the CBS SportsLine Olympic Athlete page for Italy, at sportsline.com/olympics/summer/nations/athletes/ITA
It's a God-awful mess of Javascript and ad-code (I think everything is loaded dynamically) that 156K (such much for dial-up users like me.. What percentage of the US still uses dial-up again?) So I decide to, instead of trying to *use* it while it was actively downloaded who-knows-what from various ad sites, to just save the HTML file, open it it, and then copy out links (fortuately, the links it generates are easy to use relative links). But even there, the downloaded page is *almost* unusable in Camino, because it's pulling stuff from various ad sites, or maybe running 1 or more SWF files.
I opened the URL in IE, and it loaded in about 2 minutes (versus about 5 in Camino - and Camino got stuck trying to access some site called grx,dvdlabs.com - I assume an ad-site). Mozilla loaded the page in about 3 minutes, and then settled down. But in Camino, the processing of graphics/SWF/whatever-else slowed down *everything* including the Mac GUI, the Find dialog (couldn't even TYPE in the find dialog), the scroll arrow..
Now, if I had been able to hit a "freeze" button on the page then copy out a link, it would have been tolerable. Or if Camino had a bit in its web-features panel to block downloads from specific sites.. (I know you can do that with whatever the equivalent of the OS9 Hosts file is on X, but I don't know how to do that off-hand)
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Jim Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indiana University CS
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