disabling website in bottom left of screnn...?

[joko]

evry time i click onn a new page i notice in the bottom left corner the site seems to run through a list of websites, it goes through before getting to the one i aimed for...
on this site, it comes up with silverdiscs, gravatar, adjugs among others...it takes ages on my machine to get onto pages

csn this be stopped? can i add something to disable this or have i just got let it run them...its very tedious...im on win xp home ed...
thsnks

[joko]

i am on firefox, an have adblock and popup blocker as addons, also dns run thru thing..

[ChuckFickens]

When you load a website different parts of that site can come from different servers, for example on here the main site is theanswerbank.co.uk but the avatars come from gravatar.com and the adverts come from other places, what you are seeing is the content being loaded from the other places.

if you use firefox you can install the add block plus add-on which will stop the adverts being loaded, that will get rid of some of the extra loading time, it's not feasible to get rid of all of the "extra sites" though as the page just wouldn't look right or work right.

[Buenchico]

A web page isn't a single document, like a Word document is. Instead, it's made up of lots of different components, which can be drawn from multiple sources. AB's pages make calls upon data from lots of different places, much of which is related to advertising.

You can significantly speed up the way that AB loads by disabling the calls that AB makes to advertising sites. To do so, you need to use Firefox as your browser:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
and install the AdBlock Plus add-on:
https://addons.mozill...S/firefox/addon/1865/
(When you install it you'll be asked to select at least one subscription. Don't be put off - it doesn't involve any payment! Just select 'EasyList')

Other sites with heavy advertising content will then also load much faster.

Chris

[Buenchico]

Oops!

Sorry, I was typing very slowly (and doing other things at the same time) so I didn't see your secondary post. Are you sure that you've got an active subscription with Adblock Plus?

[ChuckFickens]

Wasn't there when I started either :)

As Chris says, are you sure you've subscribed to a list with add block?

if you click the little arrow next to the red ABP icon up in the top right corner and select preferences, then click on the filter menu and select add new filter subscription, chose the one that says easylist (English) from the list of filters and add it, click ok a few times and see if that helps