Originally Posted by magiciansampras
Today I've seen a lot of "Waiting for a.tribalfusion.com" in the bottom left hand corner of FireFox.
Can we try b.tribalfusion.com?
I think (?) that "tribalfusion" is the company giving us the lovely smiley ads?
serfty came up with an interesting figure above. If 2 of these files runs to 24 KB, I have no doubt they ARE slowing things down whilst loading. And I do not need a Computer Technology degree to realise that.
I am sure others factors affect others loading speed, depending on their location and settings, but for me these things are synonymous with FT crawling. Smiley's back - FT grinds to a near halt.
In fact I got a FOURTH banner hitting me this afternoon for 5000 miles for Qantas - under the top smileys. FT is getting like ......
Well I'd rather pay a fee than see it get worse and worse. And I'm not alone it seems.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196682