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Mumblefratz
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Forums broke when using IE6

August 20, 2007 1:27:21 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
All day today I get the following when I access these forums using IE6.



At the moment I'm accessing these forums with FF 2.0 but please spare me the inevitable criticisms of IE.

Thanks.
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Reply #1 August 20, 2007 1:36:07 PM
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I'm using Internet Explorer 6. Its displaying fine to me. No problems other then the "service unavailable" sign on the forums.

-Scot
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Reply #2 August 20, 2007 1:48:14 PM
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I'm using Internet Explorer 6. Its displaying fine to me. No problems other then the "service unavailable" sign on the forums.


ditto, on both my work and home PCs.
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Reply #3 August 20, 2007 2:23:41 PM
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Well it's still definitely not working for me with IE6 at work. I'll let you know later if I have the same issue at home. However, whatever settings I have at work *used* to work on this site with no problem. Haven't noticed any "service unavailable" although access times are rather large.
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Reply #4 August 20, 2007 2:51:52 PM
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I'm getting the same junk as Mumblefratz at work on IE6 and have been for a couple of days - whereas prevously I had no problems. I don't think anything has changed here at work and all other sites I visit regularly continue to look just fine (and of course I'm viewing the site just fine now on whatever old version of Firefox I have installed that I only use once in a blue moon for debugging other people's totally messed up javascript).

I'll have to try my IE6 at home too.
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Reply #5 August 20, 2007 4:56:44 PM
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Well IE at home works just fine which is kind of surprising because it's at home where I have the most restrictive settings (all active content disabled).

Don't really know what's up with this although I suppose I can use FF at work (don't have/want it installed at home).
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Reply #6 August 21, 2007 10:44:14 AM
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Is it still acting up for anyone today?
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Reply #7 August 21, 2007 12:04:21 PM
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Yes. Im not getting the random characters, but I am having problems with the forums today. Sometimes it freezes up for a long time when I try to load a page, and sometimes IE crashes altogether. I was having similar problems at home, although not as severe, maybe due to a faster connection there.

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Reply #8 August 21, 2007 12:19:05 PM
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Try deleting the temp files and cookies.
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Reply #9 August 21, 2007 12:21:03 PM
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That was one of the things I tried, and it did not make a difference. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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Reply #10 August 21, 2007 12:27:04 PM
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It seems worse on IE6 than IE7. The forums sometimes freeze and after a very long wait, I close the browser. It gives the "End Now" pop-up.

They've always been real slow, but it seems worse as of late. Clearing the cache seemed to help before, but not so much for the past couple of days.
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Reply #11 August 22, 2007 5:30:03 PM
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Working fine for me today...

(same work IE6 setup that I was having problems with recently)
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Reply #12 August 22, 2007 5:44:17 PM
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I had the web team look at it yesterday, but none of them had any problems with it.
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Reply #13 August 22, 2007 7:54:01 PM
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I've seen the gibberish a bunch of times--particularly during the day. Later it would
work fine.

I doubt if it is IE6.

I assumed the Stardock people were fiddling or their server was having problems.

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Reply #14 August 23, 2007 10:51:13 AM
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I gave the forums a rest for a couple of days and now everything is just fine. No changes on my end. Perhaps the forums were just tired. It could happen.
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