> > I had an Android device, but now I have an iPhone. In addition to the > popup problem, and the fake "X" on ads, the iPhone browsers (Safari, > Chrome, Opera) will start to show a site, then they will lock up for 10-30 > seconds before finally becoming responsive.
Via. Ask Slashdot: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/15/02/04/1626232/ask-slashdot-gaining-control-of-my-mobile-browser Note: Starting with Gecko 30.0 (Firefox 30.0 / Thunderbird 30.0 / SeaMonkey > 2.27), synchronous requests on the main thread have been deprecated due to > the negative effects to the user experience. Via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Synchronous_and_Asynchronous_Requests Heads up! The XMLHttpRequest2 spec was recently changed to prohibit sending > a synchronous request whenxhr.responseType is set. The idea behind the > change is to help mitigate further usage of synchronous xhrs wherever > possible. Via http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/01/Getting-Rid-of-Synchronous-XHRs