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Lately I've been experiencing a lot more beach-ball time using OG  
5.5.3.  When pulling tabs off a page of links, each one (despite not  
actually being displayed) seems to occasions several (10, 15, 20)  
seconds of beach ball.  Which kinda defeats the purpose of firing off  
a collection of interesting tabs and looking at them in the order  
they arrive.  Or a new page will hang for a few seconds.

The simplest consistent explanation is that certain kinds of resource  
on some pages cause OG to hang while they are being downloaded.  But  
I can't imagine why that would be true.

This is a not a bleeding edge machine, but 733Mhz / 1Mb surely ought  
still to be enough.

Anyone else getting this behaviour?  Is it caused by something I can  
fix, like caches or disk disorganization?  I have no unusual extensions.

Help appreciated.