Are you using a web accelerator or does your ISP send images compressed to speed up the file transfer? You can also check the connection settings. You can find the connection settings in Tools > Options > Advanced : Network : Connection If you do not need to use a proxy to connect to internet then select "No Proxy" ---- There are other things that need your attention. Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update. *Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42 Update the [[Managing the Flash plugin|Flash]] plugin to the latest version. *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash *http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/