A friend of mine has been having trouble starting threads here. I told him to hit the "F5" button on his browser to load a new page, and that worked for him this time. Another thing I suggested was clearing his browser cache every couple weeks, since that generally helps Internet browsing go more smoothly.
But he's using Mozilla Firefox as a browser. I stopped using Firefox and moved to Google Chrome quite some time ago because I thought Firefox was becoming cumbersome, bogged down with too many featured. I opened Firefox 4.0.1 today and found it more cumbersome than I remembered. To clear the cache, I had to:
right-click on the top of the browser and choose to display the menu bar
Select tools, then options, then advanced, then network
click the "clear now" button and then hit "OK."
I suppose I'm technically adept enough to do this myself without much hassle, but how do I explain something like this to a beginner?