Partial Page Loading, inconsistently

Sites like metafilter, slashdot, wired always load completely in my Opera browser on outdated winXP hardware. Some pages here, sometimes, won't completely load at all or might load completely on a second or third try.

I've googled and googled and it seems all browsers have this problem for some people some of the time. They reinstall from scratch, fiddle with cache settings, spoof other browsers and it just goes on. I fixed my connection settings to use google's DNS, just in case, but pretty soon the problem returned.

Anyway. Since some sites never, so far, do this, I thought I'd bring up the issue in case AW's geeks care to investigate.

Because certain pages more regularly cause problems than others, whereas some sites are so far totally reliable, I got to wondering about their servers. Which led to further searching which eventually led to a suggestion that a cached version of a temporary (server) problem was the thing to play with next.

I cleared the browser history and retried newscientist.com and got a full page.

Okay. Thanks.