hey quasi, I know from reading past posts of yours that your kind of 'just point and click and dont question how it works' kind of guy...I admit I may be wrong about that...but I was wondering if you've tried other browsers besides ?
firefox is faster and chrome is faster still, and again, I could be wrong about that too, but may be worth a try?
also, when I used to have a laptop and traveled for work and had slower internetz than home, I would open a half dozen or so tabs on different sites and look at one while the others loaded..