goto first new post broken with Chrome on Windows?
 

So, I'm having a problem this week with the "goto first new post" links on the recent activity list in the portal. When I click on them, they all take me to the most recent post as of Wednesday (8/10, sometime around noon, it seems), and not to the new post in threads I'm keeping up on - This has been consistent since Wednesday afternoon!

Whats interesting, is that this only seems to happen when visiting from my Windows 10 machine (Chrome, latest (52.0.2743.116 m)), and not from my iPhone (chrome, latest). Is this something to do with the most recent update to Chrome this week? I can't even express how annoying it is!

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That is funky. Whenever Chrome acts weird for me, I just clear cache and browsing history (and everything else) and it starts working again.

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I experienced a similar issue with Firefox on Windows 7. I'm not sure how to fix it; it seems to work when it wants to. Though Chrome probably isn't the best browser for Windows because of the tick rate/power consumption issue...

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Having the same problem on Chrome Windows 10 and Android. No such problems in Opera* on Android


*before anybody asks, I like having a mobile adblocker, saves tons of data

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Yeah, I've seen the Microsoft data on that also. It's honestly not an issue for my Windows 10 machine, though - I've probably only used it for about 3 hours unplugged, cumulative... and that during meetings. Plus, our conference rooms here are all setup for wireless ChromeCast, which makes Chrome a must have. And it's nice having the synchronization across devices (as I use Chrome on multiple devices) when it comes to history and bookmarks.

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This happens to me a lot. For days or even weeks, clicking the little button will take me to what the first new post was whenever I clicked that button days before. It seems to "stick" a lot. It's been happening to me for months, but I'm using IE 10 mostly.

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:eek:

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Same. I've seen it in Chrome on Windows 7; I now use Firefox on Windows 10 and same thing. It'll reset every so often, but it's kind of annoying.

Sometimes the in-thread "first unread" will work, sometimes it won't.

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I've been experiencing this on Chrome on Android and Firefox on Windows 7 for a few weeks now. I thought it was only me.

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Started happening for me - I keep getting directed to posts from the 9th.

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I just rooted and blocked ads in my hosts file - works system-wide, and I don't need to use Opera.

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I'd like to bump this thread. I'm still having the issue on a clean install of Firefox on a clean install of Windows 7, and also on Chrome on Android 5. I'm thinking it's some kind of server-side issue in vBulletin. When I click the go to new post button on a thread on the portal, it takes me to things I've already read, in some instances, days ago. What's the fix?

goto first new post broken with Chrome on Windows?
 

Having the same issue with Chrome on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.10.

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Same issue (it never resolved from a couple of months ago) on Chrome on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Trying clearing cache and history to no result. Win 10 machine was purchased recently and had the issue on first boot up.

For what it's worth, occasionally it does go to the right spot, just not all the time.:D

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Whenever this happens in Chrome I suggest doing a browser reset. Going to the chrome settings and going all the way to the bottom, clicking show advanced settings, and scrolling further. Click on reset settings.

This won't delete anything, and will disable your extensions, which is probably the cause of the issue. It usually ends up being Adblock Plus if that's installed.

You guys can trust me, I'm a Chrome Rising Star on the Google Product Forums. What I'm saying here is what those guys will say too.

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Given that the problem persists across different browsers and devices, I'm thinking it's not a browser-side problem. So, how do we send this up the ladder to someone who can look into it deeper? There's clearly several of us who are having the problem.

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Sent up the ladder. Sometimes a PM can bring attention to the problem in ways that a half-buried thread can't.

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Thanks for the PM EricH.

I'll take a look at this sometime this weekend.

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I'm having trouble reproducing this issue. If someone has this happening, can you reply with a screenshot of when the page loads, as well as the URL you are on? Thanks.

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See attached, going from Portal just now. (Blocked out a couple of tabs)
And another from the "first unread" on the thread, same thing.

BTW, this is Firefox 50.1.0, operating on Windows 10 Home with everything up to date.

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Chrome 55 on Windows 10

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i've been experimenting with what i need to do to fix this (happens to me on firefox too). Deleting the sessionhash cookie helps. I think it is somehow used to calculate what anchor to link to when navigating the goto=newpost links on the portal page. Incidentally, I only ever browse from the portal page, so maybe this doesn't happen in the forums proper. Might be a bug with whatever engine generates the postid?

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it's not working right for me...has not been for months....but it seems to be that when there are more than one page, it gets stuck on the first page? It does go to the first unread post on short threads, usually.

Sure is an annoying problem, that didn't used to be there.

I'm using firefox on win 7, and between when the problem started and now, I am running a new installation of windows and of firefox.