I've read a post about the variables page loading slowly. I'm experiencing the same thing at the moment - about 4 minutes to load.
The strange thing is that this only seems to happen if I access moodle via the internet where $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://www.molecularmagic.net/moodle'.
I host my website at home, so If I change the $CFG->wwwroot to 'http://192.168.1.110/moodle' (i.e. accessing it from the network side) it works fine.
I wonder whether this is a firewall issue - but then why should it be?
Hope someone can help!
(I've posted this here after I posted in General forum as I think that was the wrong place to put it.)
Mark