I understand that, if I hit the back button this will be normal.
But pages are not refreshing automatically when I click on a link. For example, after submitting this post and click in General Questions again, page shown will be the one before I started the thread. To see it, I have to refresh manually. I swear this didn’t happen when I had IE version 5.xxx, but since I upgraded to IE6 (don’t ask me what version was).
This is not happening because of the new vBulletin version, in case that’s your guess, it was happening weeks ago and with other sites, too.
I’ve upgraded IE to version 6.0.2800.1106 yesterday, and didn’t fix the problem.
I have Internet Options>General>Temporary Internet Files-Settings>Check for newer versions of stored pages checked in “every visit to the page”, but I’ve tried the other options and didn’t work either.
Does this only happen on the SDMB? The boards are slow sometimes. Okay, pretty much all the time. Maybe the main GQ page just hadn’t been updated yet, but by the time you hit refresh again, it had. Try some other site that you can make some changes to, such as a wiki, which will probably run faster, and see if it still happens.
I’m not using Explorer, so I can’t help you with which menu items to navigate but…
Browsers cache pages to speed up the experience. One legacy from much slower connections was using the cached page instead of retrieving another copy if a time-limit had not expired.
Your time-limit is too long for your tastes.
In my browser, I go to preferences. In preferences, there is an option to Check Documents. It was set to four hours. I have set it to every ten minutes.
That’s what you are looking for. Tell your browser “bandwidth be damned, go get me a new copy.”
In IE go to Tools/Internet Options/General. Under the Temporary Internet Files section, click on the Settings button. In the area where it says “Check for newer versions of stored pages,” select the “Every visit to the page” option.
Two events can sometimes be thought to have a cause and effect relationship if the second occurs soon after the first. This isn’t always true of course.
Your recent browser change MAY have nothing to do with it. Your ISP may be cacheing and may only be updating after someone on their service has refreshed the page in question.
Since the boards change, it’s been more difficult to access and the frequency of updating may have been less than before do to less ISP traffic to the boards. There’s no solution if that’s the cause, and no way of telling, unless you can try someone else’s computer on the same ISP or the problem goes away shortly after the board problems do.
It’s not only happening in SMDB. It happens in all sites (but in message boards is more notorious because of the frequency of changes, bigger than in normal sites).
Fat Bald Guy, I appreciate your suggestion, but that’s exactly what I stated in the OP.
aahala, I’m going to try your idea, I will inform the results for the sake of general knowledge, but I insist we need a computers oriented forum (sorry, mods, I couldn’t help it). :smack: