Browser-sensitive loading speed issues

[McSam]

Apologies if this has been covered before but I've only recently noticed it.

I use Firefox, always, because it's the only browser that doesn't seem lightly retarded to me but each to their own. I'm on the beta update channel and on version 12.0. However, these past couple of days, PH forums have been completely unusable on it - I hit my bookmark for GG about three or four minutes ago and it's still not even started to appear. It's not the bookmark's fault, because navigating directly doesn't work either. I can get the main page, but as for a news article or anything with /gassing in the URL, no hope.

However, I'm posting this on IE8 and the whole site works faultlessly.

I'm going to drop back to an older version of Firefox, the latest full release, and see what that does.

[McSam]

To add that I've now got Firefox on version 11.0, and it works for about ten pages after I open it, then starts to handle like crap again. It simply won't load pages after that, not just slow, it won't ever get there.

[Switch]

Thanks for doing some checking for us chap. I'll have a look myself.

[McSam]

Cheers. Would it be really very irritating if I said it seems to have become intermittent?

I had so many issues last night I gave up, this morning was similar at time of posting but now both browsers seem to work OK.

I made thoroughly sure it was no connection problem of mine, running at normal bandwidth/ping and no other domains caused any problems.

ETA - Definitely intermittent, rather than fixed.. Posting from my phone!

Edited by McSam on Tuesday 10th April 11:35