Everything else, including European and Russian news works fine. It's got so bad I won't click on any of the major media links at FR, but FR itself works fine.
Any ideas anyone?
If you are using 64bit Windows, I have been running Firefox’s 64bit Waterfox for quite awhile and really like it.
Ditto on the lockups. I’m down here in Oz and whenever I go to a US news site the laptop freezes. I think some sort of script is running in the background and when it’s done all’s okay. Don’t know what the US sites are doing but my European and Asian sites work okay.
Navy Patriot wrote:
“I’ve had the same problem for most of 2013, but only when I go to major US media websites like newspapers, TV and cable news.
Everything else, including European and Russian news works fine. It’s got so bad I won’t click on any of the major media links at FR, but FR itself works fine.
Any ideas anyone?”
While you are sitting at a frozen screen, watch what little ‘dot com’ thing is ‘waiting for analytics dot something,com’, then if you are using FF, in your ad blocker custom filters, add that to the list. I t does free it up sometimes. And yes, it is the major US media sites that do this, which I think are trying to see what your browser is doing, and put tracking cookies in it. I have Better Privacy also in my FF.
“I use ‘Chrome’.” That is GOOGLE chrome, and I have not been in favor of GOOGLE, from the onstart, since they survived ONLY because of federal money, for the longest (pre-Obama) time.
Opera, I have used on and off since I had an XP machine, and now a Win7 machine. Not a browser that I am willing to commit to full-time.
Ever since IE changed, after version 6, it’s been fishwrap.