[brainout]

This problem arose in the last two weeks. It's so bad I don't want to read articles on PC World or its affiliates, anymore. Problem: you click on a link to an article, but when you want to scroll or page down or roll your mouse wheel, nothing happens for a good 30 seconds or more. Ties up the browser's other actions too, whether Chrome, Mozilla, or IE8. I've had to close PC World pages (or Tech Hive, etc). in order to get browser utility back. Or, I've had to hit back button to the forum, where immediately the problem is solved.

So the problem, is in the scrolling parameters set for each article in PC World or its affiliates. That's the best diagnosis I can give, right now.

If it matters, all my browsers are fully updated. So it's not the browser. Am on XP Prof, all the latest updates, so that's not the problem, either.

[smax013]

brainout, on 07 October 2012 - 08:01 AM, said:

This problem arose in the last two weeks. It's so bad I don't want to read articles on PC World or its affiliates, anymore. Problem: you click on a link to an article, but when you want to scroll or page down or roll your mouse wheel, nothing happens for a good 30 seconds or more. Ties up the browser's other actions too, whether Chrome, Mozilla, or IE8. I've had to close PC World pages (or Tech Hive, etc). in order to get browser utility back. Or, I've had to hit back button to the forum, where immediately the problem is solved.

So the problem, is in the scrolling parameters set for each article in PC World or its affiliates. That's the best diagnosis I can give, right now.

If it matters, all my browsers are fully updated. So it's not the browser. Am on XP Prof, all the latest updates, so that's not the problem, either.

It is likely all the crap that has to load.

First there are the gigantic images on most pages.

Then there are at least a half dozen websites that each PCWorld (and Macworld and likely TechHive) page (beside www.pcworld.com) has to "phone home" to in order to get content & information needed for the page (for example, since you can use your Facebook login to comment, it must contact www.facebook.com). Just find the spot where your browser lists the various sites it is contacting in order to load content (this would be the lower left corner for Chrome).

There is also stuff like javascript most likely, which means how fast you page loads will depend on fast your processor is.

[LiveBrianD]

On my desktop I run abp and ghostery, and don't have issues with pages loading slowly, but on my phone I don't use any of those and things do seem to load slower than before.