Burda Style For people who sew

Starting from 22:00 CET yesterday I could not access the BS site at all. Whenever I tried, the homepage appeared and after 2 seconds a window saying: "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort? " Yesterday I couldn’t activate the YES button because the whole browser blocked (I use IE 8). Today I managed to access the BS site but now this window appears on every single page of BS I try to open. For example it has taken me about 15 minutes to come here and report this problem. Besides the window with the message, the pages couldn’t be managed – they open and then freeze for a period of time.
I might also mention that I simply have no problems when trying to open other sites – that suggests that the problem is here.

Is anyone experiencing this? Can someone provide me with the solution for this?
That is if I manage to access here later :(

Sep 15, 2009, 01.05 PM by sewella

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  Sep 15, 2009, 02.40 PMby victorS

  I had this also, very frustrating! Fortunately I have firefox as well, so I’m using that instead

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    Sep 15, 2009, 02.55 PMby victorS

    Another thing with my IE. all my activity overlaps itself making it impossible to decipher. I read about this in another thread but don’t know the outcome of it..

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    Sep 15, 2009, 03.31 PMby sewella

    Thank you so much on the feedback. Appreciate it!

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  Sep 15, 2009, 11.06 PMby leeshv

  I have been having the exact same problem..I also use IE 8. I have no problem with other sites. Hope it is fixed soon.
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  Sep 15, 2009, 11.07 PMby thejam

  I am also having that same problem…..i couldnt even get this far today at work to report it.
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  Sep 16, 2009, 02.22 AMby nehmah

  I’m no Chicken Little to scream, “The sky is falling!” but you folks are (geographically) based all over the planet. The problem is far more likely to be here. I use Firefox, but switched to IE and the same thing kept on keeping on. We can report, but it looks as if not much will happen. It should not take that long to track down something so pervasive. We are reporting; how many have gone elsewhere until the site gets better? Nehmah

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    Sep 16, 2009, 10.52 AMby sewella

    Hi Nehmah and thank you for participating here. I am a bit stubborn and have not changed the browser although the problem still persists today. I have tried other browsers earlier but found that IE is the best for me to manage and since I have no problems accessing elsewhere on the Internet I will stay with it. Hopefully I expect the problem to be solved, so that I wouldn’t have to open another browser just to open BS.

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  Sep 16, 2009, 02.49 AMby evette

  I’ve had the same issue
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  Sep 16, 2009, 02.49 AMby evette

  I’ve had the same issue
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  Sep 16, 2009, 03.58 AMby Sallybentz

  Me too. What can we do to stop it?
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  Sep 16, 2009, 10.17 AMby EnEm

  Ah…so I’m not alone. I use the Porea 10.0 Browser and it’s all the same. I think burdastyle should fix this problem really soon, because everytime I want to do something on my profile, everything slows down and I’m not able to anything….It’s very frustrating!
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  Sep 16, 2009, 10.25 AMby Ellaryu

  Same here. Very frustrating, i want to start building my profile and love the idea of a BS club in New Zealand but not looking likely if this continues….help!
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  Sep 16, 2009, 10.45 AMby sewella

  Thank you everybody for being responsive and joining the thread to report the same problem – I am glad that I am not alone and that BS staff would probably fix this soon.
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  Sep 16, 2009, 11.26 AMby Judeb

  Yep having the same problem, thought it was because I am away from home and my connection is very slow but I guess not. I am also using IE8 and don’t want to change just because of troubles on one site. Lets hope whatever is causing it gets sorted quickly, otherwise very frustrating.
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  Sep 17, 2009, 09.05 AMby luislavena

  Hello sewella,

  It seems this issue is raised by the Ads and ShareThis functionality, which is making the browser (Internet Explorer) think there is a problem, when isn’t.

  Internet Explorer by its own is a big problem for any website, not only BurdaStyle.

  We have scheduled improvements for this and we plan on fix them pretty soon.

  In the meantime, would you mind to use Firefox?

  You can download it from here

  Thank you and apologizes for the inconveniences.

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    Sep 17, 2009, 02.51 PMby sewella

    Hello Luis and Thank you on supplying the explanation for this. Currently I am using Firefox (albeit even yesterday I said I am not keen on using other browser – however things got so bad with that problem that my lap top is in serious trouble) to get here and manage my profile. Hope this endeavour will end up soon.

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    Sep 18, 2009, 11.01 AMby Judeb

    Hi Luis, Thankyou for the explanation but how come no other sites show this problem if as you say it is common with IE! Would this also be the issue that has made ALL my images become little red crosses and numeric script? I got home looking forward to catching up on everything on BS and it seems can do nothing without downloading a new browser? Please get this sorted as soon as possible, we have all tried to be patient with the lovely new site however things seem to be regressing not improving. A very disgruntled Judeb

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    Sep 25, 2009, 04.30 PMby erdronen

    I also started experiencing this problem recently using IE 6. I use only Firefox at home, but at work I have no choice what browser I use (as I’m sure is the case for others). I was hoping for improvements in the speed of the site- not this! Ridiculous! BS will no doubt be losing lots of member activity over this issue if it continues. I hope that you can get this straightened out soon!

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  Sep 17, 2009, 04.18 PMby ana555

  i waited for 20 minutes to post this! i don’t want to not come to burdastyle, but if i have to wait that long for 1 page i can’t use this site anymore. is the script issue going to be fixed? i have waited for 3 days so far.

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    Sep 18, 2009, 03.11 PMby ana555

    i just downloaded firefox and it doesn’t seem so bad. is anyone looking into the script i wonder? this discussion is starting to look like an ad for firefox.

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  Sep 17, 2009, 07.09 PMby leeshv

  I feel your pain ana555!!! I also resorted to using Firefox. It is working fine now, but I am not at all happy about this inconvenience.
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  Sep 18, 2009, 12.45 PMby Sair99

  Me too!
  Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! It’s really annoying. Is there no way to contact the webmaster directly. This is pretty poor for generally such a good site.
  I’ve been getting this problem for about a week now.
  To emphasise my frustration.
  AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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  Sep 18, 2009, 08.26 PMby fabricaddict

  Since yesterday I can’t access my BS profile at all, it says Internal Error everytime I try – I have tried Firefox and Internet Explore :-( :-(
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  Sep 19, 2009, 02.30 AMby Judeb

  I have now downloaded firefox but all the text is overlaid so very difficult to read, and still no images, but the ads are back so I guess I now need to fix that! Come on BS this is a little ridiculous for an international site. I can not keep downloading various browsers and ad stopping programs, you need to get this sorted.

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    Sep 21, 2009, 08.21 AMby victorS

    firefox have an ad blocker ‘add on’. gets rid of most ads for me.

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  Sep 21, 2009, 07.20 AMby EnEm

  I disabled Java Script, now everything works fine…but to look at every other site, I have to enable it again…
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  Sep 21, 2009, 07.21 AMby EnEm

  I disabled Java Script, now everything works fine…but to look at every other site, I have to enable it again…
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  Sep 21, 2009, 08.56 AMby jetsoui

  Ah thanks Enem. I disabled Java script and the script problem is gone. Though I’m still left with an uploading project problem, but I think I’ll try downloading firefox.
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  Sep 22, 2009, 10.19 PMby TatusWelle

  Same problem here!!!
  BS Please fix it quickly! I dont even want to log on anymore & I love BS : (
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  Sep 23, 2009, 01.34 AMby sassiecyndi

  I don’t know what kind of computer you guys are using, but I have a MACBOOK and I have NO PROBLEMS with bugs of ANY KIND. I use to use a regular Windows Based PC. But when I got my MAC, I will NEVER go back to using ANY kind of Windows program again. Once you go MAC, you don’t go back…. at least I won’t.
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  Sep 23, 2009, 01.39 AMby sassiecyndi

  I don’t know what kind of computer you guys are using, but I have a MACBOOK and I have NO PROBLEMS with bugs of ANY KIND. I use to use a regular Windows Based PC. But when I got my MAC, I will NEVER go back to using ANY kind of Windows program again. Once you go MAC, you don’t go back…. at least I won’t.
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  Sep 23, 2009, 03.07 AMby nehmah

  Hello sassiecyndie, Is it not more reasonable to have BS fix the errors than tell everyone to pitch their current hardware and buy a new Mac? Your frequent use of caps tells us loud and clear that you are a true believer. I understand your enthusiasm, but believe the operator not the machine that matters.
  Cordially, Nehmah
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  Sep 27, 2009, 04.23 AMby Scheryka

  Hi, I am having the same the problem as well for about a month now. VERY ANNOYING I must say. As much as I love BS. I now hesitate to come to the site. I Googled the ‘script’ mthing and it said the webmaster has put in a script that runs too long and it needs to be broken down so that the freezing or nonresponsive will stop. I love BS and would love for this to be fixed.
  Just when I started to get hooked on BS….
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  Sep 27, 2009, 03.08 PMby hkjaer

  When are you gonna fix this script thing? It’s really annoying. I’ve been getting the script pop up msg since 1 month ago at least.