Okay so I have been having this same issue across several browsers and the EQ Forums website. I have tried IE, Firefox, Google etc etc. The issue seems to be that when I am not logged in I can browse the EQ Forums very easily and open up everything with ease. As soon as I log into the forums under my info the website slows wayyyyy down to almost a stop. It makes me want to not even log into the website or post anything into it. I have EQ and Daybreak access allowed through my Firewall as well so that shouldn't be the issue. Any ideas from Daybreak on this?
Install MinerBlock, NoMiner, uBlock and Ghostery - perhaps something triggers these latest ticks on the block. I have no problem in the forum so far but I run since quite a time such protection. Everquest forum has about 5 3rd-party-data analysis stuff running - perhaps one of these do it - or you have a miner/trojan in your system.