Time-out for a flash-thingy?

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Howdy, on a forum which i frequently visit, ppl are experiencing kind of lockups with their browser becuase the site that hosts their flash-signature is offline. So their browser waits for the host to respond and simply freezes is the host cant be found. :(

So i was wondering, is there a code/hack that enables a timeout value for a signature?

thanks! :)