Opera 36 handles Facebook better overall than, say, up-to-date Firefox. My system is Windows XP.
You might consider checking your CPU load and other memory stuff.
How's your graphics?
Do you have many tabs at the moments?
Any extensions that might "monitor" your search activity?
Other searches all right?

... I've tried IE-11.0, Firefox 50.1 which is worse, I've tried my current edition of Opera-42.0 and Vivaldi 24.0. I search for a few moments scrolling down then the page becomes sticky, not a hang but certainly sticky.

Uhmm... Vivaldi is right now at version 1.6 for both its stable and developmental versions (though the next dev version will bump to a 1.7 build). Flash recently moved to version 24, however, for all its various instances. So, what are you really using?