In my case it was cured but rebooting a second time.
I was thinking that maybe just logging out of FR and logging in again would have had the same result.
I am also having problems.
I am on Firefox & I kept asking for free republic & was getting connected to microsoft & a big wad of ads I have never seen before. Never had that problem before.
Now I am NOT getting the bar on the right side with other stories & am getting only short versions of the threads I can see.
Hope they can fix this soon.
Is someone hacking into Jim’s website or what?