Yabby wrote 22 October 2012 11:00:17 AM:

>... Sometimes the right hand banner ad just fails to click in and so the freeze. ...

I use "Flashblock" which stops Flash video from playing and so speeds page loading: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Strange attitude Houelly. If OLO want to attract users, which attract the advertising that pays their way, it is up to them to attract them.

Computers & web sites are a very minor part of my life. If it is a hassle, it's gone.

I was putting it down to the thought police monitoring and reacting to my opposition to the NBN.

But it appears to be due to other causes. Perhaps members of some social media site ( Stop Free Speech (?) ) are crowding the OLO site to stop publication of anti-Left comments.

Ooh Houllie, I have my porn bookmarks on the desktop, which is more
convenient :) But I have a whole lot of favourites saved and
filed into categories, so that I can pull up say any old URL about the
evils of the Catholic Church etc, in a jiffy. They are all handy
for OLO discussions.

It seems others are having a problem too and IE would still be a
popular browser, so the best option would be for the people who do
the banner advertising, which I understand is not Graham but some
outside company, to examine the problem and fix it if possible.

Hi Yabby,

I don't know about Internet-Explorer: I use firefox and it has some nice add-ons that allow you never to see an ad. They even automatically update the list of advertising sites for you.

Just in case, I also added my own tiny bit of software that blocks all advertising sites by directing them to my own internal "server" which always returns an empty page (you could of course block them in your router or firewall, but then the browser will wait until time-out, whereas if it receives an empty page, more accurately a page with just one line-feed character, it continues immediately).

Yabby,
Save your IE Favourites and with Firefox you can go to
Bookmarks/Organisebookmarks/import and export/importHTML
it will ask for the filename.