Whenever I try to read "The Independent" UK newspaper I get "Not Responding"

[Misty]

this is not just occasionally. I use Firefox and get this ever single day, for months! Thought that it might be Firefox, then after a very short while found it also happens on the "Edge" and "Internet Explorer". It may be something to do with the fact that this newspaper no longer has a print edition, and now can only be accessed on line. I persevere, because it reports news particularly well and has reports on the Middle East from Robert Fisk, who is much more unbiased and reliable.

I do notice that I get less of the "Not Responding" if I go particularly slowly, so may be tied in with downloading speed. However, since it is now solely internet based you would not think of that as a possible problem. Tearing my hair out, and I don't have much left!!

[Terry Porritt]

Seems OK for me, crisp and rapid response using Firefox and ADSL2. So it is probably something to do with your particular set up.

[Lawrence]

No trouble here on Opera with their Webpage

Do you get on-line subscription of the Independent?

[wainuitech]

Working Ok here as well.

Have you tried cleaning out your temp internet files, with something like Ccleaner ? If not it could be trying to load old pages.

You can also try this, open a CMD, type in ping www.independent.co.uk <Press Enter>

You should get a steady response with a IP address of 151.101.129.184

Like this:



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[WalOne]

No trouble here on Opera with their Webpage

Same here with Chrome.

[Misty]

Lawrence - I must confess that I read it for free ( I have made a contribution once recently to The Guardian)

wainuitech - Have just used CCleaner and cleared out 5.9Gigs. Since my SSD drive is only using 106Gigs at present, with 116Gigs free, I had not bothered too much until now. However it has not fixed the problem.
I have done the ping thing, it flashes by very quickly and the window disappears before I can read everything. However by running it about 12-14 times have noticed that it pings similar to yours three times, each go. Cannot read the stats at the bottom before the window disappears.

Patrick - sorry I don't know what this means, or how to do it? - "Try to check back your browser's page."

[wainuitech]

Okay -- That CMD box should stay open until you manually close it ( or type in exit) looks like you may have some sort of corruption. Assuming this is W10, (I'll copy paste from another thread I just replied to) Lazy eh

From search, type in CMD right click the result /run as administrator. Type in sfc /scannow <Press enter key>

Then run this DISM command. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth it will take a while to run and often appears to stop at 20% just leave it, it will finish on its own.

[zqwerty]

Misty, open Run, type in CMD, once the box appears paste in "ping www.independent.co.uk" without semi-collon, hit 'Enter'

[Lawrence]

Did you do a restart after running c-cleaner? run c-cleaner again and see what happens

Are you running the latest Firefox build?

[Lawrence]

Something to try ,Download another Firefox Browser so you have 2 of them(leave it clean) just to see if a add on or something else is causing a problem

See if the www.independent.co.uk loads on the new build