P. S.: Post Scriptum

I am getting really annoyed. I use Firefox, and at the moment it is quite useless on a number of sites. As they never stop reloading.

In particular (it seem to me) on all the sites that have a reload. Two among all: bloglines (the left bar). And the home page of La Repubblica. In the first page, according to its source code, it should reload every 3600 seconds. That is every hour. Quite an honest command for a feed reader. On the second every 300 seconds, 5 minutes. Right for a news site.

Instead they download, then the first waits 7 seconds (I checked it) and start download again in a loop. And since blogline is quite slow, this makes everything slow down. The second downloads the page, and then does it again and again without ever stopping.

It is as if he counts the tenth of second instead of the seconds. Then 5 minutes would be 1 second, and 3600 would be 6 seconds.

Now, if I open IE all this does not happen.

Strangely enough this ‘bug’ does not happen only with firefox. I remember a cd burner software that use to reload the page on and on. SO much that I had to disinstal it and find a new one.

I am using Microsoft windows 2000 with service pack 4. I installed every possible service pack and extension available from microsoft.

Any suggestion on what could it be?

I would like not to have to reinstall everything (windows), although I suspect if I do I would solve the problem.

Addendum, June 2005, 6 month later: I showed my problem to my friend who is visiting, he adressed me to adSubtract, which in the PRO version gives the possibility of stripping html code of incoming pages from the reload command. Now everything works fine, and is quite funny to see those commercial pages, reduced to their bare essential. Thanks to both.