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18-Jun-2009, 10:05 PM #1
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Have not worked for me for the past 3-4 days.
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18-Jun-2009, 10:48 PM #2
This happens to me maybe once a week, but I know why. I have around a dozen different browsers and they all use the same folder for cache. Because they don't all save pages in the same format, sometimes a browser starts to act up. I realize that your problem is slightly different, but the solution may be the same if javascript and some other things are acting up. Clear the browser cache.
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19-Jun-2009, 12:45 AM #3
I think the problems may be different---I use the same IE 6 browser. Search does not open and I like to always mark a forum read when I finish.
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19-Jun-2009, 01:17 AM #4
You need the java script to run to get that to work.
Don't as me were IE has that setting either because I don't know
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I think the problems may be different---I use the same IE 6 browser. Search does not open and I like to always mark a forum read when I finish.
Marking a forum read doesn't clear your cache (or in IE, your temporary internet files).
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I think the problems may be different---I use the same IE 6 browser. Search does not open and I like to always mark a forum read when I finish.
Yes, it may be different. But clearing the cache is still a good and easy thing to try.
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19-Jun-2009, 01:10 PM #7
Maybe the internet and computer demons will soon go away and my browser(?) will perform correctly again. I had already tried your remedies last night but to no avail.
Ain't no biggie and I will learn to adjust without that feature although it was nice to use.
Things have surely happened before that are more weird than this and I have coped. I only reported it because I thought it may be the board. Now know it isn't.
Thanks for your time and sharing of ideas.
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19-Jun-2009, 11:29 PM #8
Guess this is far from being solved because I now find, and just proved it 3 times in 3different forums, if I right click on Forum Tools and click on OPEN, I am then taken to an "area" where I can mark the forum READ. But then I have to go to Forums in order to open another forum. Crazy huh and I don't 'think' the trouble lies with my browser but with TSG but I have been wrong before in some matters. Hopefully I'll find help soon.
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20-Jun-2009, 11:12 AM #9
Sounds like the other forums support non-JavaScript browsers. Unfortunately, we started requiring JavaScript a few years ago. You're going to have to figure out what's blocking JavaScript on your computer -- probably a browser setting or firewall.
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20-Jun-2009, 10:27 PM #10
I haven't knowingly changed any settings and I have just checked these settings: Enable Java through your Web browser
Enable Java through the "Java Plug-in Control Panel"
Clearing your Web Browser Cache and all is well with each of them.
My installed version of Java is 6 ll which is not the latest but everything test that was thrown to my browser setting passed. I did not see our site listed in "Exceptions" in my Comodo Firewall settings. I have cleared my browser cache 2-3 times since this began; deleted files and even cleared history to no avail. Anything else to suggest? I don't recall how long I have used this board--years, I am sure and this is my first experience with this problem. Never have I had this problem with any other board.
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21-Jun-2009, 01:15 PM #11
Here's a simple test to see if JavaScript is working: http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/jscript.html
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21-Jun-2009, 06:32 PM #12
Thanks for weighing in John but my Java works just fine; only not on TSG.
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22-Jun-2009, 10:19 AM #13
Note that Java and JavaScript are two very different things. John's link will show whether or not JavaScript is running, which is what you need to run our drop-down menus. (We do not use Java.) Hope that helps!
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22-Jun-2009, 11:28 AM #14
Yep, that's indeed a JavaScript test...
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22-Jun-2009, 01:18 PM #15
My mistake guys, I left off the word script but I did see the "action" in the link John posted.

And while we are dealing with this problem, another thing I have also meant to ask. In some forums and in some threads/posts, the page does not load from the "top" but instead loads maybe half-way down so I scroll down to get to read the post. I inject this now because there could be some connection, perhaps. This has been ongoing for some time now and I don't mind scrolling to read the post.
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