I'm running Win95a and usually read this forum with Opera 6.1. I'm stuck with slow IE now because Opera will stop responding with the progress bar saying "completed request to m.doubleclick.net". Pages here without doubleclick load fine. First of all, Does anyone know of a fix for this? Secondly, since there's no link to a webmaster here, I hope someone in charge here will read me asking, "What the hell is this doubleclick spyware garbage doing on such a fine site?" Do they just weasel their way into anyone's site somehow? I would think that crap would never be allowed here intentionally.

Doubleclick runs a remote ad serving system. When you think of spyware you are thinking of the Doubleclick Network. Doubleclick's DART (as far as I know) doesn't have any spyware in it. Not using it to serve ads onto Computing.Net is not an option. Because of that fact, there is really nothing else to say. Justin

Justin, I take it that means another company hosting your site puts those there and you have no control over it. Now to all you troubleshooters out there: I've narrowed down the problem about all I can. The freeze no longer occurs when I disable javascript. I'd still like to fix it so I don't have to go disabling that every time I visit here.

Yes that is why. Also, since most users use IE and not Opera, I don't think many people will experience the problems that you have. Justin

It might not be an Opera problem. I also had a problem with the HP Flash ads, but at least then I got a message of Opera caused an invalid page fault in module winmm.dll. I extracted a new one from the .cab files and that was fixed. So I'm thinking maybe that wasn't the only system file that got corrupted, and for whatever reason Windows can't produce an error message this time. Oh, and I've already uninstalled and reinstalled Opera. Does anyone know their Windows system files well enough to tell me which ones are used to run javascript apps? I could try replacing those.