I keep getting a msg that a 'script is causing Adobe acrobat to run slowly". I click to kill the

[Bill USA]

script but it doesn't seem to matter. Everything gets locked up and I get a msg saying DU is not responding and eventually I have to go to the Task Manager and kill the thread.

I'm mentioning this because, for me anyway, this is pretty much making doing anything on DU impossible. This means inevitably, and unfortunately, I will be spending less and less time on DU. If this is affecting others this way you could see DU become a feature of internet history and nothing more than that.

too bad.

[Wait Wut]

1. Post this in ATA...

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1259

Not sure if it's really a DU thing or something else, but they're more likely to have an answer.

[Bill USA]

2. I put it on ATA but the reason I posted here is that I am not sure there is an answer to this

..... (that is an adjustment that can be made by us users).

I think it goes deeper into somebody's software or the communications between DU and somebody's software. But if it continues and many people have this problem it would not bode well for DU - which to me is not a good thing.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Did you try the solution in #5?

Some of us have experienced the same problem before, and turning off the social media tabs in DU solved it.

It won't necessarily work in every case. But if the source of the long-running scripts is one of the social media tabs, this should fix it.

[Bill USA]

8. yes. did that a couple weeks ago. It did help, but lately the situation is as bad as ever though it

varies. sometiimes it's not so bad.

[mockmonkey]

3. Maybe try this?

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/what-should-you-do-about-internet-explorer-script-errors

Basically if you go up to Tools on your IE and then Internet Options and then go to the Advanced tab and scroll down to browsing your boxes on three things should look like this.

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

I haven't had any trouble with IE for DU but I'm usually using Firefox.

[Bill USA]

9. I checked INternet Options/ advanced as you advised. The options are as your screenshot shows.

thanks for the detailed comment. I have found that Opera seems less prone to getting tied up than IE. I'll try Firefox too.

thanks.

[lastlib]

4. switch to a different browser.

I had similar issues with IE, and I switched to Firefox, and it went away. That helped a lot of things for me!

[RebelOne]

6. I have had problems like that with Safari.

And you are right, switching to Firefox fixes the problem. But first, I have to restart my computer. Restarting cures a lot of my problems.

[pinboy3niner]

5. In DU, click above on MY Account

Under Preferences, Social media tabs on threads (Twitter, Google+, Facebook), click Remove.