Cant post to CD? windows update needed (not 4/1 joke)

[KenWittlief]

I have not been able to reply to posts on CD for the last day or so - the buttons for reply and the column on the left side of the post listings would not appear

and the bottom of the screen would say "downloading...something.something...gif" or jpg files and the download would never compete

I went to the windows update site and loaded the lastest fixes for internet explorer, and that fixed it

so if anyone is out there reading CD and cant reply - this might be what you need.

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I have not been able to reply to posts on CD for the last day or so - the buttons for reply and the column on the left side of the post listings would not appear

and the bottom of the screen would say "downloading...something.something...gif" or jpg files and the download would never compete

I went to the windows update site and loaded the lastest fixes for internet explorer, and that fixed it

so if anyone is out there reading CD and cant reply - this might be what you need.

Me having the same problem too.
But the link is still there, just the gif icon is not loaded.
:-(

[KenWittlief]

www.windows.com

goto downloads on left side of screen

then find the internet explore updates

it took me a couple tries to get them to download casue a similar problem seemed to be happening at that site too.

[Brandon Martus]

Others (Jess Boucher, Andy Grady) have been having problems with this too. Can you tell us which patch in Windows Update fixed it, in case others don't want to do every single one of the updates.

[Elgin Clock]

It's not a windows problem I don't think. It's like all the images from CD (reply button included) would not DL from the CD server. It worked one day and then not the next.

Very odd indeed, but I just figured it was more of a CD server slowness problem than a windows error.

[Elgin Clock]

It's happening again. Thankfully I know about where the Reply button is on these forums.

[KenWittlief]

at the site there were 5 critical updates for Internet Explorer - Im running vers 6

depending on how recently you updated your Explorer you might have more or less flagged as critical for your PeaSea.

BTW - its not a CD problem - I was also seeing it happen at other websites, including Yahoo.com

[Bharat Nain]

I have been using Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and have never had a problem with CD and most FIRST related websites. In my personal opinion, Mozilla is a much efficient browser than IE.

[Pierson]

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

I have been using Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and have never had a problem with CD and most FIRST related websites. In my personal opinion, Mozilla is a much efficient browser than IE.

Ditto
You should give FireFox a try Once I installed FF, I have never gone back to ie (except to do windows updates).

My favorite part about FF is that to open a link in a new tab, just click on the link with your scroll wheel. This makes reading many CD threads quick and easy.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

I have been using Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and have never had a problem with CD and most FIRST related websites. In my personal opinion, Mozilla is a much efficient browser than IE.

Yeah, I didn't experience any problems and I'm running FireFox also.

One warning if you do use it: it currently doesn't support the advanced editor here. You have to set it to "standard."

[KenWittlief]

my daughter installed Mozilla on my PeaSea when she was home from college for christmas, and there were some things it wouldnt do - I dont remember what off the top of my head - some website of something wouldnt load with it - I had to delete it and put IE back on.

[JakeGallagher]

You see? This is why I run Opera. Horray for non-Microsoft browsers!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Texan

One warning if you do use it: it currently doesn't support the advanced editor here. You have to set it to "standard."

I use the Enhanced editor with FireFox and have no problems ...

[Pierson]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

my daughter installed Mozilla on my PeaSea when she was home from college for christmas, and there were some things it wouldnt do - I dont remember what off the top of my head - some website of something wouldnt load with it - I had to delete it and put IE back on.

In my experience, you need to reinstall flash, shockwave, and java along with any other plugins you use. Normally it is as simple as going to a webpage that requires the plugin and clicking the "get plugin" link.

Also, I prefer FireFox over Mozilla because it is much faster to load initially.