Stuck in a Time Warp!
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CharlesRyan
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Probably Not Microsoft's Fault
Look, I'm as much a mac partisan as the next guy (well, the next mac-using guy that is), but I don't think we can hang this one on Microsoft.
I'm the original complainer here, and I use Netscape. Neither IE nor Microsoft is a factor in the problem, at least as I experience it.
Look, I'm as much a mac partisan as the next guy (well, the next mac-using guy that is), but I don't think we can hang this one on Microsoft.
I'm the original complainer here, and I use Netscape. Neither IE nor Microsoft is a factor in the problem, at least as I experience it.
Blacksway
Rock Monkey
Just an idea here, but could someone try the following:
a) Set your computer up so you suffer the problem again.
b) Go into user control panel/options and set "Browse board with cookies?" to no.
c) See if this makes any difference. Try closing your browser and restarting and see if the problem is still happening.
Just an idea...
a) Set your computer up so you suffer the problem again.
b) Go into user control panel/options and set "Browse board with cookies?" to no.
c) See if this makes any difference. Try closing your browser and restarting and see if the problem is still happening.
Just an idea...
PREFACE: I have not read all the posts in this thread, merely the starting post and scanned a couple others.
That being said, it sounds like caching.
You may all be familiar with how a web browser caches copies of websites on your local computer (the idea being that it can load static content pages quickly since it only has to pull it off the local machine rather than download every single time you visit said website). The common fix is to simply to and clear out your cache.
One thing that is emerging the ISP industry is caching software on some of the ISP routers. It isn't mainstream or widespread, but some places do use it since it cuts down on costs (your computer pulls pages from a cache copy kept on the router rather than needing to go across the internet to retrive everything).
The fix?
If it is being saved as cache on your local computer, empty out your computer's cache.
As an add-on, if you use a windows machine, hold down the Shift key while you click the reload button. For macs, I believe it is the control key you need to hold down while clicking the reload button.
If we are talking about a cache copy on a your ISP's router, then, unfortunetly it is not as simply as the above two. That first requires a conversation with your ISP (or system admin, or whomever) and ask if the router (or something) stores cache copies. If you can confirm that it does, keep the conversation going with the system admin/isp to see if you can request excemption domains to the caching (or perhaps ask them if the frequency that the router's cache gets cleared can be made more frequent). If they say they do not have caching on the router (or whatever) -- and you know you are talking to someone knowledge enough to actually know the _real_ answer to the question -- then your difficulty can most assuredly be put back to your local computer. Some software setting or adjustment on there ...
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Anyway, this may or may not be the problem at hand, but just offering it as yet another possibility (/possibilities).
PS. My point summarized without my usual ramblings: If it has all the same symptoms of your computer caching but you've already cleared the cache (and you've also already tried the hold down the key and press reload trick) then it could be that your ISP is caching at the router.
Edit: Adding the PS since everything else I said comes off as a ramble
That being said, it sounds like caching.
You may all be familiar with how a web browser caches copies of websites on your local computer (the idea being that it can load static content pages quickly since it only has to pull it off the local machine rather than download every single time you visit said website). The common fix is to simply to and clear out your cache.
One thing that is emerging the ISP industry is caching software on some of the ISP routers. It isn't mainstream or widespread, but some places do use it since it cuts down on costs (your computer pulls pages from a cache copy kept on the router rather than needing to go across the internet to retrive everything).
The fix?
If it is being saved as cache on your local computer, empty out your computer's cache.
As an add-on, if you use a windows machine, hold down the Shift key while you click the reload button. For macs, I believe it is the control key you need to hold down while clicking the reload button.
If we are talking about a cache copy on a your ISP's router, then, unfortunetly it is not as simply as the above two. That first requires a conversation with your ISP (or system admin, or whomever) and ask if the router (or something) stores cache copies. If you can confirm that it does, keep the conversation going with the system admin/isp to see if you can request excemption domains to the caching (or perhaps ask them if the frequency that the router's cache gets cleared can be made more frequent). If they say they do not have caching on the router (or whatever) -- and you know you are talking to someone knowledge enough to actually know the _real_ answer to the question -- then your difficulty can most assuredly be put back to your local computer. Some software setting or adjustment on there ...
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Anyway, this may or may not be the problem at hand, but just offering it as yet another possibility (/possibilities).
PS. My point summarized without my usual ramblings: If it has all the same symptoms of your computer caching but you've already cleared the cache (and you've also already tried the hold down the key and press reload trick) then it could be that your ISP is caching at the router.
Edit: Adding the PS since everything else I said comes off as a ramble
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I manged to fix mozilla by changing it to check against its cache everytime it goes to a page. However I have a strange bug with the mac version of mozilla which causes all the buttons to disapper on enworld which means I still have to use safari to post. Presumbly only I have this problem for I've seen no other posts about it.
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