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Jul 19, 2011 | 12:10 PM

#41

Snarly

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From: USA

Quote:

Originally Posted by upstate tim

Sorry, would have replied sooner but I was on a faster forum..
Thanks for the answer though. Thought maybe those "features" you get for donating got rid of the flashing spam.
I will try the ad-blocker, too hot to ride here in Northern America today.

I get the feeling you doubt everything. Here's a screen shot of me
logged in today and you can plainly see it's IE and it's full of spam
and flashing whatever. I have no trouble with it, sure it's slow
sometimes while scanning a reply I send, or loading a new page,
but remember, it's doing that for your protection. As far as other
faster sites, sure, they're out there. I visited a Harley forum yesterday
that loaded fast and guess what, no one was home and the same dam
threads were still displayed that were there a month ago. If you want
good results, update your IE to IE9, they did update the forum for IE9
and that alone makes IE8, 7,6 and older susceptible to problems. I also
read a lot on here suggesting to dump temporary files and cookies, not
actually a good thing. Temporary files are put there to help make browsing
faster, not slower, so don't be quick to dump everything. I do it selectively
by name and date. Anyway, good luck with what ever you do.

Edit: I also snapped a shot of that "Google BS" to look at. It has add
blocker and it's fast. No harm in trying it.

.....................................Google Chrome

Last edited by Snarly; Jul 19, 2011 at 12:38 PM.

Jul 19, 2011 | 09:03 PM

#42

upstate tim

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From: send money!

I tried the AdBlocker with no noticeable improvement.
I then read that browse-in-private or "**** mode" is a blocker so I tried that... No better.
I'll update to IE9 tomorrow and give it a shot..
I don't doubt everything.
You mention other sites traffic volume. I think I'm not alone in suspecting this is a traffic/capacity issue with this site. That makes me skeptical about changing my browser.

I'll try IE9

Jul 20, 2011 | 07:07 AM

#43

nvsteve

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Joined: Oct 2006

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From: Nevada

Quote:

Originally Posted by upstate tim

Once the 30 unlimited trial is over on AdBlocker you only get 200 ad blocks. Lasts less than 2 pages on this site. IE9 without Adblock works fine on my laptop. Unfortunately I can only get IE8 on this XP machine. Good luck.

Jul 20, 2011 | 10:32 AM

#44

harleycharlie1992

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From: san diego

painfully slow!!

Jul 20, 2011 | 12:06 PM

#45

Blueflame1

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Joined: Mar 2008

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From: Rockys

Faaaaaaaaarking S L O W web site.

Every page - it is "Downloading" something and takes forever running on IE and broadband.

Other web sites - no problem.

Feels like I'm back in dialup mode again.

Jul 20, 2011 | 12:26 PM

#46

rh8234

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Joined: Jul 2005

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From: Lockport Township, IL

I have been one of the complainers about the slowness of this site. It is still fairly slow, but I did notice a significant improvement today. I have done nothing to my computer, so perhaps somebody at HDF is really working on the problem???? If so - keep it up. It is much appreciated!

Jul 20, 2011 | 02:57 PM

#47

upstate tim

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rh8234

And I thought it was me. I've been bitchin' too. I didn't know IE9 was for Win7 only so figured I was stuck...
Low and behold this afternoon it's been loading and refreshing like I would expect. Hmmm, now I can just go back to being paranoid. There must be something I can bitch about... Oh yah it's headed to 100 degrees tomorrow.

Looks like somebody added some pipe!