Slow Answerbank

[alanogden]

I'm having the same trouble as Daddles (below) particulary when trying to navigate using the blue backwards and forwards buttons in Internet Explorer. Sometimes it take 3 or 4 clicks or I have to wait 10 to 20 seconds to change the page. My Internet speed is OK 100.0 Mbps. Could it be some software clash such as vius checker - both Daddles and I use AVG.

[daffy654]

It could well be AVG, I got rid of it as it seriously slows start up speeds, it also insists on checking every page before it will load it. I don't know if that can be changed in AVG settings but it's worth a look.

[AB Editor]

Hmm.

I'll talk to the techies to see if they can do any fine tuning.

This may help:
http://www.theanswerb...our-internet-browser/

[AB Editor]

AH, are you running AVG link scanner? The one which pre-checks all the links on a webpage?

[jno]

I've got AVG and it isn't slowing anything down. I'm on Firefox, which may make a difference.

[AB Editor]

You need to decided whether you want that particular security feature, or a quicker web :)

[daffy654]

Use Firefox with Adblock. The huge amount of adverts on Answerbank slows page loading down anyway without AVG link scanner making it worse.

[EvianBaby]

Might be nothing but over the past few days, every now and then when I click on a question it starts to load the page then just stops. I have to refresh to get it to appear.

It's not a problem I'm having on any other sites.

FYI - I run Sophos and on IE 8 browser.

[alanogden]

Thanks for the advice, I will check a few things - but the problem only seems to happen on AB.

[AB Editor]

Adblock is not advised, unless you want to site to shut down due to you being a naughty scrounger, like daffy.

[daffy654]

I don't block all the adverts ed, just the animated and graphic intense ones :P

[AB Editor]

whatevs :)

I expect a bottle of wine sent over as compensation.

[vivandorron]

I can't understand that anyone would wish to continue using IE when a lot of the Techie ABers recommend Firefox. Furthermore, I have used AVG as a virus checker but, on advise from AB's experts, I am now using MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials ) which is free and I think does an excellent job.

Ron.

[craft1948]

There's nothing wrong with IE9...............

[alanogden]

Thanks to all the contributors above. I have disabled the link checker in AVG and it makes little or no difference.

[alanogden]

Latest 20th November.
I see that the AB Editor has made a special feature about this problem.