For those on dial-up connections, using WinXP with IE8: if somewhat familiar with this OS/browser/how to change connection settings, an older and very comprehensive filter, Proxomitron, will allow you to assess the contribution of ads (flash in particular) to the throttling of BYC page loading times. Unfortunately, this little app works well in XP and earlier versions of Win. http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.html (print and follow the instructions - if you don't understand it, don't use it).
Lightweight browser (this one was of use to us when we were on dial-up): http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
For those on DSL, etc., another Chrome based (but free of Google `update/service' `yapping to `home' constantly) browser with lower memory overhead is Comodo Dragon: http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
Have been using this off and on and am happy to see Win Event Viewer free of `Googly Moogly'. Also use the free Comodo Internet Security (firewall/AV - disclaimer and/or suggestion - your call).
We're on 1.5DSL (WinXP/Vista Home Premium/Ultimate). Have no loading problems with BYC at all. I'm glad I'm able to run the ads and, hopefully, help reduce the site overhead. However, I remember dial-up all too well...
(main desktop is a P4 3.2GHz with 4GB memory running XP - no issues with speed, e.g., playing vid of a hearing from Cspan-3 on one tab, load-up BYC on another tab, while Folding At Home runs in the background - not rocketing like a frog exiting a dynamite pond - but no time for finger tapping, either).
Oh, if visually challenged (presbyopia owing to decrepitude, here) there is a simple registry fix, for XP, that allows one to switch Win default font from Arial to Arial Bold (just have to enter the word Bold - increases line widths by a pixel), could be of use if text lettering in posts seem too narrow. Just PM.
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Lightweight browser (this one was of use to us when we were on dial-up): http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
For those on DSL, etc., another Chrome based (but free of Google `update/service' `yapping to `home' constantly) browser with lower memory overhead is Comodo Dragon: http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
Have been using this off and on and am happy to see Win Event Viewer free of `Googly Moogly'. Also use the free Comodo Internet Security (firewall/AV - disclaimer and/or suggestion - your call).
We're on 1.5DSL (WinXP/Vista Home Premium/Ultimate). Have no loading problems with BYC at all. I'm glad I'm able to run the ads and, hopefully, help reduce the site overhead. However, I remember dial-up all too well...
(main desktop is a P4 3.2GHz with 4GB memory running XP - no issues with speed, e.g., playing vid of a hearing from Cspan-3 on one tab, load-up BYC on another tab, while Folding At Home runs in the background - not rocketing like a frog exiting a dynamite pond - but no time for finger tapping, either).
Oh, if visually challenged (presbyopia owing to decrepitude, here) there is a simple registry fix, for XP, that allows one to switch Win default font from Arial to Arial Bold (just have to enter the word Bold - increases line widths by a pixel), could be of use if text lettering in posts seem too narrow. Just PM.
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