Why does django stops loading a page after opening several pages? - python

I have several django projects and they work well on my desktop. But when I run them on my laptop, they run ok for sometime. Then on a random occasion, opening a page won't work. The browser keeps trying to load the page (title tab keeps spinning, URL changes to the page its trying to open, and the page turns blank), while the development server (django on windows shell) says it has successfully served the page (200 status).
This behavior is consistent among Firefox, IE and Chrome. I tried changing ports, using machine IP instead of localhost, loading static files on external server, but nothing works. I tried opening the site (using laptop computer name) from desktop browsers and behaves the same. Another interesting thing is, even if I shutdown and restart the django server, I wont be able to open the page that have failed previously unless I close the loading page.
My laptop is running a basic Windows 8, while desktop is Windows 8 Pro. I think the windows version has something to do with it.
Does anyone know how to solve this? I hope I made myself clear. Thanks.

It is hard to tell whether the issue is related to Windows specifically, rather than compatibility issues with images/CSS/Javascript/plugins such as Flash. Are you running the latest versions of those browsers (or at least the same versions as on your desktop)? Do you have different security software/firewalls? Do other sites load inconsistently? Seems unlikely to be a Django issue (although you can try loading sites like djangoproject.com).

Thanks people for your comments and answer. I uninstalled from the laptop each application that is not present in the desktop and found which one is causing the problem. This app called NetWorx has a network filtering that I enabled and for some reason its blocking the django response. I disabled network filtering which is good enough for my need.

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