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Yahoo/facebook bug related to static.ak.fbcdn.net. Comprehensive troubleshooting.?

• Ok I see dozens of questions reagarding static.ak.fbcdn.net, and a lot of people are having issues with it. For some people it's causing slowdown, for others it's making IE (or other browsers) crash, and for other people it's messing with their ability to use facebook. In someone else's question on it I decided to do some researching so here are my results. ------------------------- Some online research I've done says that it is related to facebook and occurs when using facebook, but in my case (and apparently other people's) it happens on all sorts of pages, especially various news articles on yahoo. I just reinstalled windows xp like 2 days ago, and haven't installed anythig remotely dubious, and no add-ons except flash, java, pdf, and shock, and yet my IE is constantly crashing. I've run Malwarebytes, kaspersky, trojan remover and spybot and none of them say I have anything, so the only thing I can think of is this static.ak.fbcdn.net constantly trying to load... I completely uninstalled java,and I still get this trying to load, so it's not java. I also tried something else someone in another version of this question suggested. Putting the page into compatability mode DOES stop this static.ak.fbcdn thing from trying to load, but I am wondering if that's really a fix or just a band aid... I also noticed that on all of the yahoo pages this is happening on there is a new thing that wants you to sign in. It's an app, yeah an app, on these yahoo pages called yahoo! activity, and if you sign into it, it links your yahoo and facebook accounts and posts every article you read, and every picture you view to your facebook account. Did someone say google was being intrusive? Well apparently so is yahoo now. However my using this app did NOT stop the stupid static.ak.fbcdn thing from trying to load when i put the page back out of compatibility mode. I'll try reinstalling java next, and if that doesn't work then I'll try uninstalling flash and see what happens. Ok, I reinstalled java and that didn't change it so I tried using anything but yahoo to make my IE crash. I loaded 10 youtube videos at once, 7 google news pages, and 10 pages on a forum I go to, and while my computer staggered, IE did not crash. This is definitely something related to yahoo and facebook. I'm not going to bother with flash, this is obviously a yahoo/facebook bug they need to fix. My best answer is use compatibility mode until they fix it. Or add it to blocked sites. I don't know if that will affect using facebook though.... ----------------- If anyone wants to chime in about whether blocking it disables facebook, please feel free. So. It is a yahoo/facebook bug. Anyone have any idea how to clue in yahoo and facebook and get them to fix it? Because its irritating a lot of people. I have used yahoo almost exclusively since 1995, and this needs to be addressed, or I, and a lot of people are going to end up using something else. Question?. How do we get yahoo/facebook to fix it (and any other thoughts on the subject are welcome).

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  I have tried everything I could find as well. Putting static.ak.fbcdn.net in the restricted zone does cause facebook issues. U just have to to take it out of the restricted zone and refresh the FB page if you wish to use FB and then just put it back when you're done. I keep static.ak.fbcdn.net in a notebook page to copy and paste it back into the restricted zone. Some of the suggestions out there may cause you other issues so be careful. Resetting IE caused me a group of problems I spent hours fixing. I also reinstalled the newest java, flash, ran without addons, ran malware and antivirus to no avail. I downloaded Firefox and it seemed to work ok there. I could not find the difference between IE8 and firefox to try and make IE work. I just need to stay with with IE due to plug in compatibility issues with Firefox. Good luck, hope a fix is in the works.