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Problems logging into this forum March 14 and 15.

Forum member Health Edge explained that Cox hosts this forum on a domain that is not run by Cox.  I am posting this question to see if anyone else had problems logging on.  It kept loading but never did load.  I had to wait a few hours on both days before i could get in.  @Health Edge, you mentioned a workaround of hitting Refresh after 10 seconds. I will try that next time it happens.  I thought i saved my notes about your idea but i can't find them.

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The work-around for me is clicking on a link (in forums.cox.com) and then counting to 5 and pressing Stop/Escape in the browser. Sometimes you have to wait a little more than 5 seconds, sometimes you can wait less. Depends on how slow the page is at that moment.

I also had some luck with using Adblock to restrict some of the javascript on the page (mostly headers) but that is hit or miss. I was never able to fully isolate which was the bad code. 

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Thanks for the reminder.  I wasn't able to get into the forum at all; so i couldn't click on a link.  And now i am getting a "talking" ad when i go to the page to log into the forum. It is loud and annoying.  I can understand why you would want to use AdBlock.