[js1138]

The images don't come from FR. The come from whatever server hosts them. A web page is a bit like a shopping list. The list can be short but you have to get the items from several stores.

FR does not know or care how long your computer takes to get the images. they're coming from somewhere else.

[Grampa Dave]

Please one final time for a kindly ole grampa who doesn't understand these modern things like you do.

So if a hundred freepers or a thousand freepers are waiting minutes for one of the slow threads to even finish loading and coming up and on, we have no impact on the system even in a hundred or a thousand of us are setting on line waiting for minutes for these threads to load?