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To Host,
I've been following this overlong thread "Network Preference Pane gone berserk..."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712387&tstart=0
and getting a "slow script" message two or three times using Safari, and need to keep clicking on the "continue" button before it will load completely. Very slow with Firefox also, but without the message.
I don't know if it's me or the server in this situation, but would it help, perhaps, to break it up into pages to eliminate this problem? I thought that was what was usually done with such long threads.
Also- to hosts- as you must have seen, there have been numerous reports concerning this particular problem with Security Updates 2008-006/7. I know this is a user to user forum and that your job is not to reply to technical issues, but I've been told that Apple technical does monitor these forums. Do you have any way of knowing if Apple is going to take some action in the form of an official announcement or a response of some kind?
Thanks.

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