Clicking Browse, Forum and Comments all load the Comments page. Starting over and going to the main FR page and clicking Browse takes me back to the Comments.
Delete cookies and temp files. Then shut down and cold boot. See if that helps.
There are three tabs on the page: Articles, Activity and Comments. If you’re seeing comments, yours is set on comments and it will stay that way until you click articles. Then it will stay on articles until you click one of the others. Logging on or off makes no difference to the tab setting.
Click here:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?tab=articles