Thanks for the response Russ. Yeah, I know about the download times and the emoticons etc and that's not what the problem is.

This is complete non response, not even 'slow', there is nothing. This happens when I've been on the forum for a little while. It starts off ok, and then for some reason it starts doing this and I have to click out of herballure and then come back in and I'm ok again for a time.

Whether it's to do with accummulation or something, I'm not sure. E.g. going from one post to another and back, or from one forum to another. Not sure, but I'll do my best to report when and where's/hows next time it occurs.

I wonder too if it is happening to anybody else here? because if not, I think the issue probably lies with my computer.