internet browsers not responding

Just recently i have found that both Firefox and Safari have been "not responding" when i have tried to view some pages... namely some pages on the bbc news site and the guardian site and also mlb.com

It appears they are pages with some form of embedded video on them.

its rather infuriating. the pages begin to open then all i get is the spinning rainbow and all other firefox or safari pages hang too.

anyone have suggestions please?

Thanks

Matt

of course...

these are some of the pages that i have opened that look like they are fully loaded apart from the video bit...then crashed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.mlb.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/d/int/news/top/1/-/news/1/hi/business/7645645.stm


matt

i am in the uk. We have Virgin at home as the ISP. i haven't had a chance to take my MB else where to try a different ISP as yet.

I am running OS X 10.5.5
with flash version 9,0,124,0

youtube works fine!

I have just updated my shockwave player and am now on version 10.

however this hasn't fixed it. hmmm.

so i reckon it appears it is something to do with the OS X 10.5.5

looking at other forums i'm not the only one! but i haven't come across any fixes yet.

ebay works and so does my internet banking.

ahhh

you know what...i think its sorted.

found this:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8168340#8168340

tried changing the DNS codes. my connection has got quicker and i can now look at the dull videos on mlb.com. it dodn't happen right away which made me wonder...but now it does.

thank you every one for your time
matt