[antlr-interest] ANTLR website vs Firefox

[Peter C. Chapin]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jim Idle wrote:

> Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> > I've noticed that, for some reason, the ANTRL web site seems to misbehave
> > in my Firefox (v3.0.7). Specifically many of the images don't download (I
> > get "Waiting for www.antlr.org" indefinitely) and I've also had similar
> > problems downloading some files. When this occurs, I load the same pages
> > in IE7 and they work fine. I wouldn't think much about it except that it
> > is very consistent. I do notice that all the images that cause me problems
> > are *.gif files.
> >
> I use 3.0.7 on Madriva Linux and everything works perfectly. Perhaps you
> should disable all the plugins and see if that works, or perhaps reload
> Firefox. I have had so many problems with Firefox just hanging or
> slowing to a crawl when there are "too many" windows open, and using 5TB
> of memory, that I have started to use Opera when I can.

Well, I just tried it in Google's Chrome browser and it behaves the same
way. The gif images don't download and the browser just keeps trying
"forever."

Are those gif images being generated in some special manner?

Peter