For me it loads fine with Google Chrome, but not with Safari.
FR is largely broken for me right now at 0730 ET. I can, with persistence click into a thread and post as I am now, but loading pings simply doesn’t load the full pages.
I am only on here because I am stubborn, and I love the site...:) Any other site that behaved in this fashion would not get more than a few tries before giving up for the day.
The issue is NOT a browser issue, it is only one of two things:
1.) Free Republic server issue
2.) Internet issue local to where the FR servers are.
Those are the only two choices.