An uncommon but very frustrating problem when browsing the boards

Facebook is disabled at my work. This means that whenever I load a boards page it gets stuck on the part where it says "performing a TLS handshake with facebook.com"

I don't know if this is connected, but it does seem to contribute to improperly embedded image or video links in comments and posts that I view.

It would be nice to have images and videos load properly, and if facebook handshaking is interfering with that would it be possible to switch the order of loading operations so it does everything else before commonly blocked websites like facebook are loaded?

Anybody else have a similar problem or know of a workaround?