IIRC from the last election, some things you can do to try to get your pages to load faster on FR...
Click on ‘Account’ at the top of the main page
Click on ‘Preferences’. Where is says ‘Thread Pagination’ and ‘Browsing’, change it to a lower number, either 50 posts or 20.
Also in ‘Account’, click on ‘Manage Blocks’. Those are the boxes that are on the sidebar. You can eliminate un-needed sidebars. When I do FR during times like this, I eliminate all sidebars except ‘Breaking News’.
Just some suggestions to help your computer load the stuff faster.
The following has helped speed up my computer. I am using Windows 7.
In most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine.
To resolve this issue (manually) open the “Services Editor”
Start | Run (type) “services.msc” (no quotes)
Disable all non-Microsoft unnecessary services.
Scroll down to “DNS Client”, Right-click and select:
Properties - click Stop
Click the drop-down arrow for “Startup type”
Select: Manual, click Apply/Ok and restart.
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