Browser troubles

Please try clicking on refresh. Let me know if that doesn't help, in which case I'll install IE9 on my Windows/7 machine and check it out.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Are you using IE9, too?

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

I understand the problem now, I'll install a fix tonight.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

For Internet Explorer, logins (and everything else) should now work.I have IE8 installed on my development platform, and the problem appears to affect IE6, IE7 and IE9, which I have installed on other machines, but not IE8, hence I never noticed the problem. Somehow or other Microsoft managed to fix the bug in IE8, then restore it in IE9. Gotta love 'em!

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Is anyone out there using IE6?Any informed opinions/knowledge out there about how much IE6 is still used?Reason I'm asking is that the new menu scheme doesn't display properly on IE6, and I'm trying to figure out what priority to place on fixing it.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Thanks for the info - die, IE6, die!

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

I installed the fix last night around 8 PM Eastern Time US. Was avatar uploading still broken after that?

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Hi Moose,I use FF4 quite a bit and have encountered none of the problems you're experiencing. Are these problems unique to EvC Forum? If you have cookies or Javascript disabled then the site won't work for you, but otherwise EvC Forum should work just as good or bad as all other sites, except for simple sites with no active content. If you recently upgraded to FF4 then your problems shouldn't be due to not reloading/refreshing in a long time, but you might try that, or even restarting the browser, or even rebooting the whole machine.It almost sounds like your problems got worse when you upgraded, so I'm also wondering if you have an old machine and/or operating system.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Maybe others can comment, but I don't think your experience is typical. I have three windows machines, 2 with XP and one with Windows/7 (a laptop), and I have two Linux machines, one personal the other a webhost that I rent. Perhaps because I'm lazy I never log out, I never shut down, and I never degrag other than any auto-defrags that might happen. Crashes are extremely rare, at most maybe one a month across the five machines (and the crashes are always on windows machines). I suspect that if I rebooted them every day that they'd almost never crash.I'm no Windows expert, but degragging daily seems extreme. Unless you're writing and deleting huge volumes of files daily it doesn't seem necessary. You might try not defragging for a while and see if things change for the better or worse.If your problems are mostly browser related you might try switching to Chrome - at least it would tell you if it's a case of FF not playing nicely with W/7 on your particular machine.Next time you trade in your laptop you might consider a Mac. We also have 2 Macs and are about to get a 3rd in the form of an iPad2, and they literally give us no problems whatsoever. The laptop comes up on-line within a couple seconds when opened, it goes dormant when closed, and it has none of the blonky Windows sleep behavior, also know as "What the heck, I think I'll act like I have absolutely no idea what's going on when I try to restart."

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Gee, problems with IE, why am I not surprised.Thanks for reporting this - I'm busy on other stuff right now, I've added it to the todo list.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director