Tech Support?

[mal]

Hi,

Just lately (3 or 4 days) if i have two or more IE tabs open with this forum in one of them, IE wimps out and gives me spinning circles and the connecting message.

I have tried having upto ten tabs open without FD being one of the tabs and that works fine. If i open FD and anything else (two tabs) it buggers up IE.

Have there ben changes to the forum lately or owt. My antivirus and antispyware gadgets are up to date, I've had this laptop 6 months now and it's the most stable system i've ever had, no changes to hardware or software in that 6 months except AV updates and some new RAM 2 months ago.

Any ideas or sensible suggestions as to the cause and remedy woud be welcome

[stockslave]

Hi Mal, I'm not aware of anything having changed with regards to the forum. As you know my techie skills are not fantastic but, I have just opened eight tabs, plus this one with both my email accounts running as well and didn't have any problems at all. There have been occasional problems with the proboards server which have accounted for similar symptoms. I hope someone will come along later with a little more technical knowledge

I've just been on to proboards support to check server status and under known faults it does say that they are aware that there is a problem at the moment with some slow loading pages. Hope this helps. As a last minute thought I am using IE.

[Deleted]

Hi Mal,
Another techo-no-knowledge here, but I've never used IE as my advisors consider it to be cr@p.
Though I've had trouble with Firefox crashing with yahoo sometimes.
No problems with this forum on Opera at the moment, but slow-loading ones some time ago.

[4wd]

It's probably the google ads which cover the running cost.
I have seen firefox protest about 'click-jacking' because it assumes the link in advert is potentially going to take you off the site without you wanting to do that.
IE8 is particularly keen on security, I don't use it but maybe you can tell it this site is 'allowed'.

Not quite sure I understand the problem though, I'm thinking the non-loading tab is for this site - or does it seem to be trying to open additional tabs?

[mal]

Hi 4WD,

No the problem is if i have tabs open with the site as one of the IE8 sits there like a dumb shit and wont let me do anything at all, i can read sites until i refresh or click a link (any link) ten i get a white screen and a tab with the whirly blue circle and connecting... then i have to close IE8 and start again without this site Hope that's clearer

[4wd]

It is odd it's just started to do it, maybe Microsoft have updated something recently (and will now be frantically trying to devise a new update to fix the last one!)

It is worth trying an alternative browser - like Firefox or Chrome.
It's easy to do, just download and then you can open the different browser from a desktop icon or start menu.
You can import you favourites to the new one and use either of the browsers as you choose - both at once if you like.

[mal]

I;ve been told to try firefox before and didn't get on with it. Chrome was good til it buggered up my old system

[mal]

Update

I am now using Google Chrome and I have to say it's amazingly good.

Thank you 4wd or the advice