Does anyone using Firefox have trouble with it being able to find things when you click on a location, and it comes up with a “can’t find it”. BESIDES ME.
I click on my email, and it can’t find it. I have to try it at least twice, and sometimes up to 5 times before it comes up with it. It is the same with any place I try to go to, even this web site, my bank account, my credit card, Etc. Sometimes, when I am on a website, and try to go to a different page, it can’t find it.
Is this just happenig now, or does it happen all the time? I occasionally get that sort of thing, but it usually turns out to be a bad case of “slow Internet connection” when my ISP falls down.
When this happens, have you tried a diferent browser? Does this happen on multiple computers?
That sounds far more like a problem with your internet connection that with Firefox. Try another browser - I suspect you will find the same problems.
One way to test the connection is to open a “command prompt” (in Win7 it’s called the Windows Power Shell) and type in (without quotes) “ping www.yahoo.com” or “ping www.google.com”. That should give you an idea whether your internet connection has problems.
Reply from 209.191.122.70: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=51
Reply from 209.191.122.70: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=51
Reply from 209.191.122.70: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=51
Reply from 209.191.122.70: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 209.191.122.70:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 22ms
Yeah, I’m having that problem. I THINK it’s broadband that is becoming narrowband, i.e. slow network response. But I haven’t sereiously checked it out yet.
It is doubtful slow webpage connections are the fault of Firefox 4 or Internet Explorer 9.
New Firefox v4 is faster than we could have hoped for, and; the v4 minor bugfix/updates are soon to be here. Firefox uses global & open-source standards.
New Internet Explorer v9 performance has also been a pleasant surprise. In the past, Microsoft has not necessarily used global & open-source standards, but proprietary standards in its browser. There are still a few websites that program to MS-standards, and this could be one source of your “can’t find it” while using Firefox.
A solution here is a Firefox plug-in/extension called “IE Tab 2” – To load & view MS-centric websites into a Firefox tab – Really slick!
3 other “can’t find it” sources: Slow ISP connection; too many ads loading beyond the browser’s time-out setting, or; “renegade webpage scripts” where all you can do is wait for a time-out message, and then click on “stop script.” These “3 problems” can occur with either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Once in a great while, If slow webpage loading occurs all of a sudden that just-won’t-quit (and extends to all programs) – I start looking at a recently installed new program that literally takes-over the windows registry. The goal then is to restore your windows system to its faster-running state.
There are a variety of registry cleaners (like the free CCleaner and/or Wipe 2011) in addition to the free version of Revo Uninstaller which is more thorough than windows’ built-in add/remove programs. Other “restore-tricks” include a system restore, and; registry-fixer suites like Glary Utilities, Tune-Up Utilities, Ashampoo Winoptimizer, Winutilities, jv16, etc. – before a final defragging of the hard-drive.
The only downside I’ve found with these system cleaners is sometimes removing cookies you wanted to keep - such as MR Forums. For these situati
Since I first posted, we had one Terrible Thunderstorm, lots of thunder, a little hail, and almost 2 inches of rain.
Our power went off, just long enough to shut everything down, and then came back on again. I have my computer powered by a UPS so it didn’t go down, but the internet did (here). Couldn’t get it to work, was acting like it had before, but worse. It was late at night so I quit and went to bed.
The next morning I couldn’t get back on anything. Finally reset my Modem and Netgear, and now it all works very good. Much faster than it had been, but it still doesn’t find everything the first time, but when it finds it, it loads very much faster.
I don’t have any explanation, not a computer whiz. I used to work on computer controlled machines, but not the computer part, only the interface between them.
The SE has had major storm damage - as you suspected, either no service or slow service. As far as browser issues:
Both the current IE9 and Firefox/Mozilla browsers are much better/faster that the previous copies. I suspect the original poster has a connection issue. Both browsers work with many sites with no problems. I have both Vista/IE9 and XP/IE8 machines - IE9 is a pleasent surprise after I found that ‘compatibility’ option. I just upgraded Firefox last night and it is much better as well. Chrome is still a memory hog, but I suspect Google will address this in the near future.
Being the computer ‘biz’, I see all kinds of issues - Most are configuration or network related, Kalmbach’s current performance issue is nothing new - and we can only guess if it is network, server, web application, etc at this point. Most customers have ‘shrink wrap’ applications for things like this forum, and I am sure they are working with the provider.