I might be the only one having this problem and it's only happening at home on my DSL connection and not at work on a backbone connection. When I try to load some pages, the page seems to freeze, I see a message at the bottom that first says http followed by some numbers and then it goes to another message that has the word "count" in it. This happened once and afterwards I ended up with Internet Speed Monitor on my computer which I was able to get rid of with anti spyware software. Now, when I get this message I immediately try to stop loading the page, but everything freezes up and I need to end the task in the task manager window. It's now happening so often I'm not accessing the site from my home computer any longer.

I've had this problem too. It seems to be waiting for the banner ads to load. The only way out is to end task in the task manager.