I often get major freeze time while a page tries "connecting to ads.platinumstudio.net" -- often 30+ seconds (after that I click to another site, but I've waited as long as 2 minutes before giving up on DD).

This is happening more and more lately. Either the ads are too big (for even a cable connection) or they don't like Firefox, or the ad address is coded wrong, or something.

It's starting to become a major issue for me.

Yeah i'm aware of the problem and will try to have a solution soon

Seems to be better but still not brilliant, in Firefox anyhow!