Thats what we have been working on the past week. (Not done yet we need to upgrade our OS on both server which will happen tomorrow.)
Please use ad blocking carefully as we rely on the ads to pay the bills and keep the site open to all.
For the past 24 hours (and a LOT of work on it this morning) I have been moving ads to iframes so they should no longer slow down the loading of pages. I dont want to have to block access to people using ad blockers if we can't pay our bills. Thanks for your understanding.
I love FF, don't need to worry about getting viruses, etc. You can set a profile in FF to view the site with or without ads depending on your net connection or go the Pub Membership route. I used to do that until my current dispute with Paypal.
Some of the banners do direct you to some nice things like the Applied Instruments one.
I did a speed check and the board is speedy both ways.
Many of the categories and threads I click load way too slow. I use IE Firefox and Chrome depending upon what I'm doing. The slowness occurs with all of them.
I personally think it's the type of ads. I realize that this is what pays the bills, but if people get too frustrated and just leave, that won't do anyone any good.