Error Message

I keep getting the message:

Stop running this script?

A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slow. If it continues your computer may become unresponsive. Stop running this script now?

I get this on every page I go to on this site. Anything I can do?

Firefox is considered the best browser for this site. Download and try it and see if it doesn't help.

Internet Explorer is so slooooooooooooooooooooooooow. And it doesn't work very well with this site. As mentioned, try Firefox. With plugins like AdBlocker and FlashBlock, you never have to look at any ads or anything while you're browsing (including on this site). It's great.

Swept my computer for malware with adaware. Seems to have cured the problem... Thanks!

I'm having the same problem than e4forme. I checked your link and i already did what they said. It's not working. I think there's something mis-coded behind chess.com.

I also tryed firefox but i'm getting an infinite loophole from rubicon something. I'm also pretty confident that i don't have any malwares/virus, everything else is going fine and smoothly.

I guess i'll try a third browser like opera to see what happens.

I'm pretty sure it's caused by an advertisement script that tries to contact it's host (rubiconproject.com or something) which won't respond. It continues indefinitely and doesn't stop. If you use something like Firefox or Opera you can get it to stop. Use AdBlock+ or NoScript with Firefox. Opera should work automatically. There are other postings on this problem, which I could not find in the little time I looked.

Edit: Found one: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/site-being-slow

a third-party ad-server was having some problems. i have disabled it. please let me know if you are still having issues!

In order of point:

1. As I mentioned in another thread, find me 20 sites using IE vulnerabilities to attack users. Of course the statement is true, it's just that the threat isn't as big as it was. Getting your PC taken over because of a hole in IE7 is pretty unlikely really (easy example from that other post, the latest "big" hole in it was believed to be used on about 10,000 sites, google chess and look at how many sites there are).

2. As you already mentioned it's the most common browser, and in general a lot of smaller sites are coded specifically for it, the Acid tests are just standards compliance tests and a hell of a lot of coders out there deliberately break the standards when writing a site (a large reason for that is IE). I'd also like to point out that I just ran Acid3 in Opera 9.51 and it got 84%, so really, I don't care.

3. That's because it's a commercial entity. Face it, MS has a huge number of very skilled developers working on all their products (probably more skilled than a large chunk of the OS community) and they're never going to embrace open source. Also (while I do actually like the concept of open source, I don't neccessarily think there are overt benefits to either approach) it could be argued that malicious individuals might be able to find bugs in the source and exploit them before a fix is found.

4. See point 1

5. Firefox addons are, in the majority, written by amateur developers and, as such, contain a slew of memory leaks and CPU hungry methods. About 10 months ago there was a story about a site which actively blocked all users of Firefox because of the use of AdBlock. The problem is, that if all users blocked ads, a lot of smaller sites would end up not making enough to keep the site running, just something to think about.

6. Malware on the whole is shoddy (a good thing because it tends to break before it can do anything really bad), so it's perfectly likely to assume that it could cause scripting erros if it was hooked into IE.

7. Don't bother with Chrome, it's too early in development to be a useful browser, it was overhyped at launch by a Google-salivating media, and really isn't that special compared to other browsers. Yes, try FF3, but even better, try Opera. If you want to look at things like the Acid test it performs fantastically in it, it's one of the fastest browsers out there, and it comes bundled with features that you have to download plugins for in FF such as voice control, mouse gestures (my most used feature), and the ridiculous number of ways you can do things quickly (e.g. to search on google I can either open it up and search for something in the main box, or I can search in the search box, or I can just type in "g" followed by my search in the address bar, or to open up chess.com, I have it set as one of my dashboard sites [1 of 9 sites that appears whenever you open a new tab] so I can either press Ctrl+1, or just type 1 into the address bar, or click on the mini-image on a new tab).

I don't know about everybody else' problems... But mine was caused by Malware! A simple sweep with adaware did cure it.

Anyone else getting "Page unresponsive" message during games? I even am getting it on this page here. it seems to only be on Chess.com.  it interrupts the game especially if it is timed.  im getting them sometimes on every move.

Anyone else getting "Page unresponsive" message during games? I even am getting it on this page here. it seems to only be on Chess.com.  it interrupts the game especially if it is timed.  Im getting them sometimes on every move.  I tried installing Mozilla Firefox and transferred passwords from Google chrome. I can not log into anything- says something about old password- will not let me in chess.com or anything else. Deleted Mozilla Firefox

If you're running ad blocker, that is the most likely issue. Try disabling that and see if it improves.