| Author | Message | ||
     Davegess |
I have been having the follwoing problem with IE explorer. When I use the search new messages on Badweb I can go to any of the pages but when I exit the page and go back to the list of new messages IE lockes up and I have to do an end task on it. Only happens at home. Only happens if I use the search since you last search option. Any ideas? | ||
| Phillyblast |
the fix for IE  | ||
| Glitch |
Firefox is the way to go. IE is abandonware. | ||
| Darthane |
-=dandles his Mac on his knee=- | ||
| Glitch |
-=dandles his Mac on his knee=- Too much of that and you'll go blind. | ||
| Ezblast |
Not bad stuff - trying it now - we'll see.- lol GT - JBOTDS! EZ  | ||
| Glitch |
trying it now You'll go blind too. Darthane! see what you've started!? | ||
| Kevyn |
smoooooth! Clear and clean. Is it my imagination or are the pages loading just a tad bit quicker? | ||
| Ezblast |
I like how it works with the security software - no tell me twice cause security disbelieves - lol - GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Kevyn |
I've been using Firefox all night and it works great, much better than Mozilla or more refined than Mozilla. Thanks. | ||
| Blake |
Dave, Two things to consider wrt you IE settings at home... Do a "Tools", "Internet Options", "Settings", "Check for new versions of pages - Never". I think the default is "Automatic", but man, if you browse some pages repeatedly the "Never" setting sure speads things up. You do need to remember to "Refresh" though if a page has been updated. Or, the preferable way to browse... Right click on the new message, then select "Open in new window". Clicking back and forth is a real time killer. Much better to open threads in a new window. That should be happening automatically, as I made that a default preference setting some time ago. Yep. If when you do a new messages search and are not getting a new window when you click on any of the thread or post links, something is likely wrong with your browser. What version of IE are you using? | ||
| Blake |
I gotta chuckle when people deride MSIE, it has been a reliable and ever improving browser for me. I'd sure like to know what makes any other browser significantly better. | ||
| Opto |
Anyone use Opera these days? and ZoneLabs firewall? | ||
| Phillyblast |
Blake, Except for some recent rumblings, Microsoft has effectively abandoned IE 6. They won't make any fixes outside of security (it has some pretty funky CSS rendering issues among others) until Longhorn come out in 2006(7,8). Ask a web designer about trying to get IE to work  From what I understand IE 7 is a complete do-over. So full W3C compliance, better security, active development, tabbed browsing, . . . makes other browsers a better bet for me. Oh, and if you have a Mac you'll never see another version of IE. It's Windows only now. | ||
| Phillyblast |
Built in pop up blocker, too. | ||
| Blake |
What is CSS? I have no problems with IE working. | ||
| Davegess |
Blake, not sure which version, pretty recent actually. I am thinking the solution is to reinstall. It does open a new window, works like it always did. This site is the only one causing problems. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets and is the sort accepted standard for how to make web pages look a certain way. The idea is to take the look out of the html and put it in a style sheet. Microsoft has been the worst offender with browsers that don't work properly with the standard. You as a user don't see this because wed designers usually make sure the page works in IE by using various hacks and work arounds to make up for IE rendering the instructions in a non standard way. Until the last 2 years most browsers were pretty bad but all the new one except IE have been pretty good. Makes designers crazy because you follow all the rules, your page verifies as correct code and looks great in compliant browsers and than you have to add all sorts of stuff to make it work in IE. PITA. | ||
| Blake |
Click "Help" "About Internet Exploder" to see which version you are running. You might also try a Windows Update to see if there are any IE patches you may have not installed. When is version 7 coming out? | ||
| M2me |
I have to agree that either Mozilla or Firefox is the way to go. I haven't used IE in years. Opera is not bad either but I've been using Mozilla and recently switched to Firefox and Thunderbird for email. I just don't have any real reason to switch to Opera. Once you've used tabbed browsing you can never go back. Plus, IE has too many hooks into the operating system. That's dangerous and there is just no reason for it. As someone else pointed out Microsoft knows this and they'll have to do a complete rewrite of the browser to fix it. I have been using the free version of ZoneAlarm for years and am happy with it. Use ZoneAlarm, don't use Outlook and keep up with critical updates and you should never have a security problem. Dave Gess, You might try wiping out all cookies. I believe badweatherbikers.com sets some cookies for the time of your last visit, etc. It's possible that your cookies file is corrupt and particularly the badweatherbikers.com entry. | ||
| Glitch |
I'd sure like to know what makes any other browser significantly better. Maybe not better, but, the less than reputable people can write to IE's security flaws. Then you get pop ups, and it's also easy for someone to run a Java script trojan on your machine to invite others to use your machine with out your knowing. It's not the Firefox is "better" it just doesn't know the language of the less than reputable, therefore it just ignores it. Although I turn off Java, as it can cause problems sometime in any browser. |
