I use Firebug so have investigated the issue in Firefox with that, and it seems one of two things is happening. In Firefox I see at the bottom the page Transferring data for (IE doesn't show this though). The spinner in the tab shows there is activity and clicking links does not work.
The website I'm trying to view does usually partially load but will not completely load. This issue is occurring in both Firefox 27.0.1 and IE11. I finally upgraded my work PC to Window's 8.1 Pro on Monday (from 8 Pro), but since then I have been having problems with websites not loading correctly.