# Anybody else getting the non stop buffering on the Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012 "2013-03-15T15:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/1 "2013-03-15T15:25:16Z")
So I’ll click on a thread, then the page will just start buffering non stop while NOT loading the page. And what’s weird about it is while that page is buffering, I can open a new tab, go to the SD and click on the thread I was originally trying to access with no problems. All this while the other page is still buffering. Another weird thing about this is that there doesn’t seem to be a ‘time out’. I once let a page buffer for a good 30min before I finally closed the tab. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/2 "2013-03-15T15:56:01Z")
Mine is the exact opposite: I click on a link, and it almost immediately goes to “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage,” with no buffering at all. The page usually loads after refreshing it a few times, though. This is only happening when I click on threads, not on forums or any other links. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/3 "2013-03-15T15:56:40Z")
I keep getting time out messages and unable to connect. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/4 "2013-03-15T16:04:53Z")
I am also having all of the problems listed above, at different times. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/5 "2013-03-15T16:14:15Z")
Down for everyone is intermittently showing the site as down. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/6 "2013-03-15T16:17:10Z")
It’ll do the constant buffering, but more often than not if I hit stop and then re-click the link it’ll open immediately. It’s almost as though there were an ad trying to load first that can’t, and it jams up the whole thing? (I dunno, I’m not computer savvy at all) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/7 "2013-03-15T16:25:35Z")
I don’t get either of those, but what I do get is that about half the time I pull up a page, after everything is up and loaded, the progress indicator continues to spin indefinitely. Normally, I’ll hit the stop button so it doesn’t distract me, but even if I come back to my computer several minutes later, it’ll still be spinning. It does this on Firefox on two different computers. I don’t know if it’s an ad trying to load or the GreaseMonkey script trying to pull up avatars or something else altogether. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/8 "2013-03-16T04:12:31Z")
**Joey P** : That happens to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/9 "2013-03-16T04:24:07Z")
> [@saje](#): > > It’ll do the constant buffering, but more often than not if I hit stop and then re-click the link it’ll open immediately. > > It’s almost as though there were an ad trying to load first that can’t, and it jams up the whole thing? (I dunno, I’m not computer savvy at all) Same here but sometimes takes a few reloads. Interesting thought about the ads trying to load. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/10 "2013-03-16T13:00:22Z")
> [@saje](#): > > It’ll do the constant buffering, but more often than not if I hit stop and then re-click the link it’ll open immediately. This has happened so much that I stopped thinking of it as a defect, and I just do it automatically. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/11 "2013-03-16T13:01:38Z")
> [@saje](#): > > It’ll do the constant buffering, but more often than not if I hit stop and then re-click the link it’ll open immediately. This has happened so much that I stopped thinking of it as a defect, and I just do it automatically. (Ha! it actually happened when I tried to submit this post… so I’m not sure about it being about ads) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/12 "2013-03-16T14:55:20Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It does this on Firefox on two different computers. I don’t know if it’s an ad trying to load or the GreaseMonkey script trying to pull up avatars or something else altogether. It’s definitely one of those. Happens to me too. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/13 "2013-03-16T18:42:03Z")
I had to make several attempts to read this thread (in Chrome fwiw) due to constant buffering to a blank page. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/14 "2013-03-17T10:57:22Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I don’t get either of those, but what I do get is that about half the time I pull up a page, after everything is up and loaded, the progress indicator continues to spin indefinitely. Normally, I’ll hit the stop button so it doesn’t distract me, but even if I come back to my computer several minutes later, it’ll still be spinning. > > It does this on Firefox on two different computers. I don’t know if it’s an ad trying to load or the GreaseMonkey script trying to pull up avatars or something else altogether. I get that at times. I can usually see down at the bottom left-hand of the page what it is that’s trying to load and nine times out of ten it’s bloody Google Analytics collecting info on our browsing habits. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/15 "2013-03-17T11:11:30Z")
I don’t use GreaseMonkey nor do I have ads via membership and AdBlock, and this happens to me sometimes, too. What’s been happening more often recently, and is annoying the heck out of me, is when clicking “New Posts” I get the 120 second search wait screen when I haven’t clicked New Posts or done any searches or anything else that should prompt that screen. It’s only happened in the last month or two, but it will happen a few times a day. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/16 "2013-03-18T16:15:58Z")
Same issue. Page seems to load okay, everything works, but never finishes. Firefox, ubuntu, adblock, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/17 "2013-03-18T16:20:31Z")
306 now. Hold my beer and watch this! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/18 "2013-03-18T16:25:51Z")
_bangs on car door_ Whoo hoo! Back down to 3 of 245. If 7 of 9 shows up, tell it I said “hi”. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/19 "2013-03-18T16:27:56Z")
Well, my Adblock mouse-over tells me I have 7 of 268 here. Is that a cousin, d’you think? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-getting-the-non-stop-buffering-on-the-dope/653012/20 "2013-03-18T17:08:50Z")
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