Fix the forum/chatbox for IE users

[stealthee]

This issue has been going on for far too long. The site randomly crashes, gives a 404 forbidden, error. Gives other random errors at random times. The chatbox randomly crashes, won't refresh messages whatever.

The answer is NOT to download Firefox or Chrome. The site should be friendly to all browsers. Its bad for busniess when it doesn't work as it should, especially when a new user signs up and sees constant crashes. Do you think they are going to want to stick around?

[anyonebutme]

Some of us have no choice but to use IE on work owned computers....


Just sayin'

[green-lantern]

Some of us have no choice but to use IE on work owned computers....


Just sayin'

I here ya, I got so sick of people telling me to download bla bla when I could not on my work PC.

I don't think I've had any if very minimal problems with this site lately though. I use IE at work and Firefox at home.

[Valhallaz]

This issue has been going on for far too long. The site randomly crashes, gives a 404 forbidden, error. Gives other random errors at random times. The chatbox randomly crashes, won't refresh messages whatever.

The answer is NOT to download Firefox or Chrome. The site should be friendly to all browsers. Its bad for busniess when it doesn't work as it should, especially when a new user signs up and sees constant crashes. Do you think they are going to want to stick around?

This... Exactly

[Boomer3000]

I agree with this thread

[CoopKill]

[stealthify]

Brian, what version of IE are you using?

[stealthee]

brian, what version of ie are you using?

ie8 ...

[stealthify]

ie8 ...

I know it doesn't solve the problem completely, but maybe it'd be easier for Alan to give us a profile setting that would allow us to toggle the global chat on/off. And/or give us the option to only load it into a seperate window when we want it.

As nice as it is to have the ability to instant chat, it does seem like it slows pageload speeds down quite a bit and puts extra strain on the server. Especially if you're the type to open multiple threads into seperate tabs. Either that, or Alan may have to comb through the ChatBox developer's code and track down the gremlins that are causing issues with IE, and that'd likely be quite the annoying task.

I'm using IE9 to post this right now, trying to see if I can replicate the problem.

[stealthee]

I know it doesn't solve the problem completely, but maybe it'd be easier for Alan to give us a profile setting that would allow us to toggle the global chat on/off. And/or give us the option to only load it into a seperate window when we want it.

As nice as it is to have the ability to instant chat, it does seem like it slows pageload speeds down quite a bit and puts extra strain on the server. Especially if you're the type to open multiple threads into seperate tabs. Either that, or Alan may have to comb through the ChatBox developer's code and track down the gremlins that are causing issues with IE, and that'd likely be quite the annoying task.

I'm using IE9 to post this right now, trying to see if I can replicate the problem.

From what I have gathered IE9 is only available to Vista or Windows 7 users. I still run XP which I personally love compared to Vista and 7. Anytime I have to fix issues on my mom's or brother's computers I want to pull my hair out at the stupidity of some of the areas on the OS.

As for load times, I really don't see page load slow downs one way or the other. There were ZERO issues up until the most recent update. After that is when all the crashes started. And Alan it is just at random times. No one was chatting when I got up this morning and I had page crashes twice. The chat also crashes randomly. Sometimes it will crash every 30 seconds and I have to refresh the page to even get it to come back. There are other times where its fine for 15 minutes at a time. I have had chat eat several of my posts too.