Can you alter your host file to have googleapis point back to your computer? It would make it time out much quicker.
I'd considered this before on some of my Windoze boxes, but on my main rig (a Mac) no-can-do. Good idea though!
Hmm... I will ask the site admins but... are you sure your computer is clean and/or your navigator is ok?
Its definitely not my machine and/or my navigator. I've got five computers in the house (two Mac, three Windoze) and
all of them will attempt to load ajax.googleapis.com on CBT. It varies from site-to-site, but some websites will attempt to load it and some won't. You probably don't notice it on your end. I don't either when I'm in America or even when I'm in Hong Kong (the Special Economic Zone of China). But in Mainland China, Google and Facebook are blocked. This means
any Google service is also blocked. This means any website that uses any Google service or app, even for a second in 99% of the world, will hang/stall/and lag like crazy here in Mainland China. And honestly, thats about as much fun as an all-amish bachelor party.
The problem you're running into is that we serve jquery and a font through Google. However, it's a hosted library, so I'm not sure if China blocks those or not? IIRC, they may not? I'm sure someone will complain about servicing through Google's CDN, but it's efficient and fairly quick.
If it sounds, smells, or tastes like Google...its blocked. Cut off at the knees. Google does not exist in
any form in China. They've banned it. No Google maps, search, even Google Play Store is non-existent here in China. You can still access it in Hong Kong, thankfully, but unless you've got a VPN; there is no escaping the Great Chinese Firewall. So any website serving jquery and fonts through Google, otherwise a fraction of a second check for most browsers in most of the known world, causes
any browser on
any machine using
any operating system in China to twiddle its fingers until its failed; and then the rest of the site will load.
The only solutions I've seen thus far are either waiting about three minutes for ajax.googleapis.com to time-out, and/or using a VPN to launch CBT's website.
FYI - I'm not complaining about any policies of Google, CDNs, or internet blocks China puts into place; I'm merely reporting a technical aspect that hampers my ability to post on these, my favorite forums, as a result of CBT causing ajax.googleapis.com to launch.
