Well I'll be blessed! Clearing my cache helped A LOT on this Vista machine. I don't know if it's down to 2 secs now, but it's close. It even speeded up the "Mark Forums Read" function. I wonder if this will work similar magic on my W2K machine at home?
Well, it helped here (W2K) too, but it still takes 4 secs or so. And with multiple tabs open, my CPU fan sins up, and overall it slows down
everything.
I think there's something going on here that sucks up cycles doing nothing that I can see. This
never happened on the old SG/vB setup. On this page, right now, I see the animated Allstate banner ad, but nothing else is animated. I know that my Java VM is ancient and cannot be upgraded on W2K, so I can't try that fix. I don't run any ad blockers, other than blocking pop-ups with FF itself.
Anything else I can try? No, I will not "upgrade" to XP.
I went directly to W7 via dual-boot, because it had stuff included that I wanted (Media Center), and I got a great price ($50), and the Aero interface is pretty nice although I don't see the big appeal of transparency. Don't even get me started on W8. It let me install that on an old P4 which promptly rendered it unbootable because of a W8 requirement that the MS installer never checked. :rant: I borrowed a very nice core i5 from work (Intel NUC) and installed W8 on it. What a crock that is! (W8, not the NUC.)