[damnlimey]

Sounds like an explorer issue,try uninstalling and re-installing IE
(I'm assuming this happens at other sites besides FR)

[OldFriend]

I think the Pop Up Stopper messed up my surfing too.....so I disabled it. Now I just have slow loading of the News Activism page.......Home page is right there but then it takes a long time to get to the various topics.......

[Tony in Hawaii]

I've been using Mozilla 1.0, and I haven't had any problems. It also stops pop-ups on its own.

http://www.mozilla.org

[sigSEGV]

Also make sure you run Ad-aware. Lots of spyware will install without your consent.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

[WillaJohns]

What exactly is the URL that you are going to?

This is the URL I use to access FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/browse

Is this the same one you are trying to access? If not, try this one and see. If this doesn't help, let's flag John Robinson and ask him.

[WillaJohns]

This may be a dumb question, but it has to be asked: have you cleared your cache lately?