If you notice any other issues, be sure to post them here.
Responding to your invitation, do I detect a 'block' occurring from one of the ad servers?
For perhaps two weeks now I've noticed pages of M-F not loading because progress gets stuck at ad.doubleclick.net. This is not a continuous problem, but an irritating one. It appears to happen more at certain times of the day.
The solutions, if they can be called that, include going back one page and trying again, or going to a different thread, or halting the page load and trying a reload, even quitting the browser (Camino).
Because I wish to use and contribute to M-F without the clutter and distraction of ads, I have cookies, Flash animations and pop-up windows blocked. I suspect the delay caused by the ad server is related to the cookies block. Could that in fact be the case?