Some websites load interminably

[Muse]

Had my T60 almost a year but this is a new thing. Some websites take forever to load. For instance:

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distributi ... J1097.html

Those pages load quickly on my desktop. Both systems use Firefox, XP Pro. What might be the problem? TIA.

Edit: Just now I don't have a problem anymore with the above page. But yesterday it required that I use my desktop instead of the T60. Any ideas? Thanks.

[DAH]

It's loading in 0.745s for me with firefox, perhaps it was a problem with the website? Websites can have problems, or it could have been a problem with your router. Did you attempt to reboot any thing yesterday? If it happens on multiple websites I would be inclined to think it is your notebook. A few sites once in a while, makes me tend to believe it is the site, or the network.

[Muse]

All I know is I got hourglass interminably on the desktop and went to my desktop (running on same wireless router, but the desktop is connected to it by ethernet) and it loaded "instantly." Back to laptop and it was still stalled. My tests indicated other pages were loading quickly on the laptop. Just some wouldn't. I did a shutdown/reboot, the problem persisted.

[erik]

if firefox slows to a halt when loading a page, try running IE with the same URL and compare the results.   i've found that firefox slows in both vista and server 2003.   it's annoying because IE always works but i'd much rather use firefox.   unfortunately, i haven't found a solution yet outside of using IE more often.

[Muse]

It's happening again this morning. I just logged out and logged back in because I wanted to test my Windows password.

Firefox has a feature that IE doesn't appear to have, which is remembering what windows and tabs you had open when the browser was last closed (I never close all my windows, I just shut down the machine or go into standby or log off). When you next open the browser (Firefox) you are asked if you want to "Restore" the last session or start a new one, and I restore.

I had 5 windows open and an average of around 8 (?) tabs open in each. Many of those tabs were doing the hourglass thing several minutes later.

When I had this problem before (pages never finishing loading), I closed most of the windows and tabs, almost all, but the problem persisted.

I never have this problem with my desktop, where I compute similarly in Firefox.