Are you ever going to fix this site for IE?

Mr Skeletor wrote:

I'm on IE 6 at work too.
Hasn't crashed for me in a while (has it been pashed recently) but yeah, it's a pain in the fucking ass with this site.

Depends upon what you mean by "recently."

Mr Skeletor wrote:

I meant patched not pashed.
And I was actually thinking of IE 6 being patched, not this site.

I actually got secret admin rights on my PC awhile a go and updated to IE 7, but then shit bricks when stuff used via the browser wasn't working and the helpdesk were going to remotely connect in to see the problem, so I quickly rolled it back.

I don't know if IE6 got patched or not. So, has the site crashed IE6 for you in the say the past month? Trying to pin down a freeze without an error message is a bitch.

Mr Skeletor wrote:

Uba, you fucking champion, these new boards are looking great at work! (so far!)

Before I had to always view the site in full screen because shrinking the window led to problems like the tabs, buttons and avatars disapearing. Now I can go back to surfing in the corner of my screen making it much less obvious I'm slacking off.

I'm glad to hear that. I was hoping that the new version of the forum software would solve some of the IE6 display uglyness, but I wasn't sure. This version is the final release candidate, and isn't officially "production stable" yet, but I didn't want to hold off any longer waiting for the final version since you all started up about the IE6 issues.

Mad Dog wrote:

I finally get this site working (so far) and of course another site starts doing the same thing. Guess I won't be visiting the new FFG very often. :-/

That sort of confirms my hunch about what I think might be causing your freeze ups. There is nothing runninng in Trash Talk except for the forum software and the google ads. IE6 doesn't deal well with "too much" javascript. The forum is pretty javascript heavy. Since you were getting partial page loads, and it wasn't happening all the time, my best guess at this point is that the additional javascript load from the animated google ads was the straw that broke the browser.

So we are doing a trial and error test. I have set the forum so that only text ads display. What I need from you, and any one else running IE6, is any additional reports of freezes or Operation Aborted errors and what page you are on when it happens.

Mad Dog wrote:

It just happened trying to click this thread to read your reply. Now that you mention it I have had issues with javascript loading before. Not from web-surfing but something I do at work that uses the browser so I didn't really make the connection. That's probably what it is.

Well now you have a valid work reason to request permission to upgrade to IE7.

Mad Dog wrote:

ubarose wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:

It just happened trying to click this thread to read your reply. Now that you mention it I have had issues with javascript loading before. Not from web-surfing but something I do at work that uses the browser so I didn't really make the connection. That's probably what it is.

Well now you have a valid work reason to request permission to upgrade to IE7.

A dramatization based on what would be true events.

Me: I need IE7 so this form will load in easier.

IT: But it does load in right?

Me: Eventually.

IT: Then you don't need anything. Fuck off!

The End.

My work gives me anything I want. I once mentioned in passing that startup and shut down of my laptop was taking about 10 minutes a day and was a huge pain, two weeks latter my boss hands me a new laptop.

Let's try something else.

Go to >

Tools | Internet Options
Click Settings in the Temporary Internet Files section

Tell me what size that is set to.