Same here... my "purchase page" can take 5 minutes or more to load while stopping all other browser pages from loading; whethere eBay or not unless I click stop on Firefox notice that "a web page is slowing down your browser".
Originally I though the ad blocking within Firefox was the issue, but turned that off and the same. So, I turned off flash, which is where the placement for ads was showing and that did not help. So, I went to eBay controls and once again tried to turn off the insidious reminders that consume the right 1/3 of the page, but that has never stopped them for the past year. But, while I was there, I also turned off the email reminders that are sending hundreds of emails per day to remind you that you are the high bidder, but bid soon... lol ... and they have not slowed down.
....We no longer sell on eBay, but rather a buyer because when people cannot place bids, the seller is losing money; about the time you click to make a bid, sometimes you beat the right side reminders and sometimes not and wind up on a different page. And then there is waiting and waiting for some pages to load. Thus, we are using bidding tools more and more to avoid this ongoing nonsense of software with a mind of it's own. It eliminates the reminders in the right column and saves deleting hundreds of emails each day.... thankfully, government is not yet taxing emails. 🙂
