What is Contextweb? Solving Firefox & PF Loading Issues

[jwriter]

My PF screens stop loading and the status bar says "Connecting to tag.contextweb.com". I even got a contextweb splash screen one time.

I use Firefox with Ghostery. There was a similar issue about a year ago...

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=474557

Hope this helps.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Banner ad service. Just got an email from support that they had an outage. Should be fine now.

 

[Fredrik]

It's not fine. It often takes me 10 seconds or so to load a page. (Not every time though). This has been going on for about 24 hours.

 

[AlephZero]

It hadn't recovered for me about an hour after Greg's post #2, but it has now.

 

[Fredrik]

It was still bad for me a couple of minutes ago. (About a 10 s wait before the page loads). It was pretty annoying when I wrote a couple of posts a couple of hours ago, when I had to wait 10 s or so for each preview.

 

[Fredrik]

No problems today.

 

[NascentOxygen]

My PF screens stop loading and the status bar says "Connecting to tag.contextweb.com". I even got a contextweb splash screen one time.

If you happen to be using linux, you should be able to add that address into your /etc/hosts file to fix the problem permanently.