This is a frequent but annoying FR glitch lately. The only solution is to go to your account, then to “My preferences” and change the “Thread Pagination” and “Browsing” options to 20 results/messages per page.
Thanks for that tip, doing that now.
Ok, set prefs, works better
my preferences were and remain set at 20 messages per page
the issues I was having... relatively minor ones...were resolved by switching back to the chrome browser.
frankly I think the issues I was having may have in part been due to having left the compute on 24 7.....with one window open to the drudge report...which updates every minute or so,,,adding to the data in the browsers CACHE...