Oh yes, yes, yes, Joan! You've explained the whole process much better than I did, and it is SO frustrating. The freeze I mentioned referred only to the My Alerts page, but what you've said about the actual board pages is also happening. For me, the board pages are loading-freezing-loading just as you describe, but eventually they do load. But when I try to exit the My Alerts pages it ends up totally shutting down my browser, so I'm trying to train myself to leave the boards from any page other than My Alerts.<s> Apparently on the message pages themselves where you're seeing "javascript" and "opening page" Firefox is showing the name of actual script file, and I'd bet almost anything that the one that has held you up for 10 seconds is that "Transferring data from switchatdmt.com" script. I counted 9 seconds one time, but mostly it takes 3-6 seconds to run, and during that time the page is completely frozen. It's maddening. FWIW, I just found the sticky note with the error message I get when My Alerts shuts down the browser: MS Visual C+ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program Firefox.exe R6025 Pure virtual function call Thanks, Beth On Jan 20, 2008 6:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Beth- > > It is interesting that you mention pages freezing when navigating the > boards. I've been running into that problem with delays for ALL board pages > loading. It is like there is a script that runs and until it is done--the loading > of of the pages just freezes. I've counted as long as 10 seconds where the > pages just quit loading and freeze and don't respond. > > Last night was the worst--it took forever to go from page to page with some > pages never fully loading. It isn't like the normal partially loading pages > either--because of the freezing and not responding until the script completes > --sometimes it just says javascript at the bottom or OPENING PAGE but nothing > moves. Last night I had to keep closing my browser and coming back later > because whatever this script is that was freezing was also overheating my > laptop--the fan was running on high as soon as I tried to load any board page. > > Tonight it is a bit better--but there is still that lag where nothing loads > until some script completes. > > Joan > ----------- > Leaving RootsWeb through the My Alerts page freezes my browser > (Firefox), which eventually shuts itself down EVERY time. My first > thought was it's a Firefox problem, but because it doesn't happen with > any other pages think there's got to be something really weird about > the My Alerts page. Also, I tried to get My Alerts in Opera a while > ago, and it wouldn't even load the page. > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world's oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln, or any other historical person of your choosing." Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse in the Washington Post.