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Dan,

I too use Netscape 4.7 and have been afflicted with the sloooooooow loading syndrome. All the new bells & whistles do not outway the hassle. I seldom log on to my previous favorite site. Hope something changes to speed things up.

Lou Lyman

I recommend that you swap over to IE6.

The page will load much faster as this board is PHP based, and IE loads PHP much faster!

Ian

The application language has nothing to do with it. How fast a particular application language does what it is programmed to do depends on the server behind it. I think that the new board simply is much more HTML, and specifically table, heavy and therefore it takes Netscape 4's slower rendering engine longer to layout the pages on a slower machine. I did a test with IE6, Netscape 6, and Netscape 4.75 loading several pages on the new msgboard on my main personal system, which is a 1 Ghz Athlon with 384 Mb of Ram. IE/NS6 loads almost identically in speed and only took a few seconds to load any page. Netscape 4.75 definately is slower and took about an extra 5 to 10 seconds depending on how many posts and things were on the page. My best guess is just the table heavy design, but in any regard there isn't much I can do about it.

Even though NS4.75 was slower, it still was very livable on my system. Unfortunately, I think those with old systems with low processing power might be in your boat. So, 88Cobra's right that you'll do much better using IE5/6 or Netscape 6 on this site.