for those on a mac using ie-

this has speeded things up for me but you will lose some functions such as adding smilies, the pop-up incoming message window, slow posting replies and a few others but it sure beats 45 seconds for a page to load using dsl. (mac b&w g3, os 9.2.2, ie 5.17).

edit menu
preferences
web browser
web content
uncheck "enable scripting" (and "show scripting error alerts", if enabled), "enable plugins", and "enable activex".

do this before you access f/t and reset after you log off