Say anything resembling Apple or Mac and you can PayPal me two grand for a new computer.
A few days ago I downloaded an update, and I’m pretty sure this update has made my SDMB browsing days. . . difficult.
Pre-download, if the boards were too slow they’d go to that ‘Page cannot be found, press refresh on your browser’ window. Which was fine - I’m usually doing sixteen other things on my machine, anyhow. Now, however, it first goes to that page, and then those arrogant Microsoft bastards forward me to their automatic search page, in the process mangling the URL, and the whole ‘refresh’ thing goes out the window. As does the ‘back’ window, which is particularly annoying. So then I have to go back to the forum’s main page and try again.
I know this is a longshot, but does anyone have an idea what I can do short of firebombing Redmond?
I’m not an expert, and you didn’t say what browser you’re using, but I think both IE and Netscape have a “feature” that causes this behavior. In Netscape, go to Preferences - Navigator - Smart Browsing and turn off whatever you see there. In IE I tihnk it’s Internt Options - Advanced, I think the items are called Auto Complete something.???
This is just my best guess, if someone really knows the answer please tell!
I have both Netscape & IE on my computer. That way when one acts weird when it visits a web page I can use the other. But both of them have an option &/or preference setup you should look through, plus manuals come with them.
