noncarborundum
Posts: 320 Joined: Jan. 2009
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Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 23 2011,23:47) | Quote | The links, they don't work for nobody unless you edit them. |
I use Chrome. It allows me to see the problem link on the page that doesn't load, and fix it on the fly.
I wonder how many times it has to be repeated that the problem is here. |
There are two separate issues here that you are confusing.
I fully understand that this forum mangles links. When I follow one of these mangled links, I see UD's 404 page, which looks like this:
I also know how to fix this problem, by editing the URL at the top of the 404 page, or by pasting it into notepad and editing it there, or by following a shortened link helpfully posted by a fellow AtBC participant, such as the goo.gl link that Patrick posted yesterday. When I try any of these things, the result depends on whether I'm in Firefox or IE on the one hand, or Chrome on the other. In Firefox, I see the target UD thread perfectly well for a period of time of up to 60 seconds:
Then, for no apparent reason, the page is suddenly replaced by this:
(The same thing happens in IE, except that IE's "loss of connection" page looks a little different.)
It's this sudden loss of connection, not the URL mangling that we all know about, that Acipenser and I are encountering. Zachriel is entirely correct that it doesn't happen in Chrome. This problem is not here, it's at UD. I suspect there's something in the HTML for that particular page that confuses IE and Firefox but that Chrome has no problem with.
-------------- "The . . . um . . . okay, I was genetically selected for blue eyes. I know there are brown eyes, because I've observed them, but I can't do it. Okay? So . . . um . . . coz that's real genetic selection, not the nonsense Giberson and the others are talking about." - DO'L
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