For some reason, on Stackoverflow posts, pages keep loading for 15 seconds until the request to this link times out. During this time I generally can't click on anything that has Javascript events associated with it. This only happens while at work so it may be a corporate firewall issue. I was just wondering if there was something I could do to remedy it because it's starting to get very annoying.

The Net tool in Firebug reports that the request comes back as a 204 (No Content) message.

(I'm not really sure how to tag this because I don't think it's a bug per se)

**Update:** The chat boxes on the right hand side don't show up until the 15 second mark. Disabling antivirus does not change the result.

**Update 2:** Could someone post the kind of result I should be getting so that I can determine if a firewall or something might be blocking it?