The last few days I’ve noticed two new things; i.e. the cursor over the Community (and other) subject(s) in the bar atop the site does not provide the dropdown choices, and I can’t make a thread “Add to Favorites” by clicking in the bubble near the title when reading a thread. Not sure if it’s the site or something I’ve done locally.
Don’t notice any problems, what browser are you using. Used to have issues w/ IE7 on an older XP machine, our departed good friend Jeff told me to try Firefox, solved those troubles then. Still using it years later and perfer it over IE9 on a new 8.1 PC.
I’m using IE11 on windows 8.1 laptop. I reloaded (reset to factory condition) my other (desktop) windows 8.1 a few days ago to eliminate some problems it had developed. The two tend to sync windows settings, so if others are not having the problems I mentioned above, I must have got some setting(s) wrong.
UPDATE: I just tried Chrome and both problems were gone. So I’ve got some issue with IE11. I have trains.com in the compatibility lists (and always have). Not a huge problem but I wonder what is wrong.
Way back when…, I used to go right to the MR home page when I clicked on my favorites line for the site. Then, last time there were problems I started getting a message something like “Can’t find page” but the top of the MR page was there and I could click on Community, then get here. Just recently it started asking “Page Missing?” but I am still able to get here as before.
From the messages I get, it appears I shouldn’t be getting through, but I am.
Don’t know, just happened!
Richard
Yep I was gonna suggest using Chrome. Its great, never have any problems with it. Get the ad blocker for it too.
Don’t use IE ever, I mean ever. Its a peice of crap. Haven’t used it since 2005. I use Firefox for the longest time, until it got way overloaded with crap, and runs slow. So I switched to Chrome. Its the best browser right now.
I’m an IT guy too, so if that matters to my experiance with computers.
As an IT guy, I find IE just works on sites. The others are where you start having issues. Firefox is now hugely bloated, I guess they never learned anything from the Netscape days and just let it run amok. Chrome mostly works, Microsoft even support Chrome for most of their web-based services. Chrome does have an annoying habit of makike Windows Explorer restart when it loads - I notice this because I’ll often launch Chrome for my Gmail and then also attempot to immediately start something else but before I make the second click to select from the start menu, the start menu closes and I end up clicking on the desktop. This is with multiple computers with different Windows versions, and I’ve seen it watching other people use their computers - so it’s commoin. Maybe not everyone tries to launch their standard apps all at the same time like I do though.
There is tons of mininformation about IE out there, the primary one being that it si a virus magnet. I have never had a virus on any machine I control in all my days of owning DOS/Windows computers. And I’ll admit, I visit some sketchy sites at times. I’ve had things CAUGHT by my AV, but if I hit the same site using Chrome, they get caught again, so the browser would not have prevented a thing.
Comparing the same site loaded into both browsers, Chrome using more memory than IE. With 16GB availabile I don’t really care all that much, but just another sign of how no one really knows how to code these days. Every computer now has tons of memory, so who needs to optimize?
At any rate, the site here works fine for me using IE 11 on both Windows 7 and 8.1. No problems with menus or dropdowns, and Adblock Plus for IE stops the ads same as the Adblocker for Chrome. If something has changed on your machine I suggest scanning for malware or viruses.
–Randy
Some good points Randy. I agree, seems apps these days don’t utilize memory very good. I keep at least 30 tabs open in Chrome. And each tab runs as an instance/process so it sucks up memory like crazy. I too have 16GB of RAM so it doesn’t really bother me. But still come on devs these days are lazy.