Annette, I also experience that. It's not just this forum though, it's also other places on the internet. I don't know how much of it is my platform, my browser, or my internet connection speed. I don't know if the internet is getting bogged down with all the holiday shoppers. I have no doubt a lot of it is due to pop-ups and advertisements regardless of the time of the year. Automatic updates running in the background don't speed anything up any. It's not just the last few days but It does seem to be a little worse lately which makes me wonder if it has something to do with holiday shopping. Or is some malware out there spewing forth all kinds of traffic to help cause these problems by clogging up the intenet?
Sometimes I cannot get his site to open, I eventually get the message it's not available if I'm patient enough to wait. If I try a little later it usually works OK. It can get hung up going form one thread to another. Sometimes my typing gets ahead of what's on the screen. When the buffer clears I get really weird spacing and sometimes keystrokes are out of order. I don't type that fast though I'll admit I might hit the wrong key every now and then. But since the same kind of stuff happens other places I don't think it's this site.
I will admit to really hating pop-ups, especially on certain other sites. But advertising is what fuels the internet. I live with it. I have considered getting an expert to clean it up. There are programs you can run to clean up certain things but I think those are pretty automatic anymore. Cleaning out caches can help. But even when I do things I know to do (which isn't much) experts can find other things to make it better for a while.
And to think I used to enjoy getting cookies.
, good one.
