Well, the wife's computer was the same.
The whole question came about by having just been told by my wife that her 'sites were all white with (a small amount of) blue writing.' She had just downloaded FireFox for the first time. I then booted mine to find the same thing - with this thread's title in the bottom left corner. It was stalled there.
But I may have been barking up the wrong tree. That images site may just be where it hung, and a quite normal call. Just don't know.
This darn U-verse system I changed to has been quite a bit of trouble. All the wiring and an expensive box outside were all changed a week ago due to it repeatedly going off line. I have whole house filtering in said box.
The guy is some days late in changing the modem/router - I guess I should calm down and see what it's like when the new box arrives - but I'm living on the computer right now, reliant on it for practically everything - including shipping Tyrrells crisps from England.
Grief, I'm getting sad.