People Who Are Good at Web Things: Help?

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It's not necessarily a browser issue, chrome does that to me every now and then when I hit up digg. Its likely one of 4 problems. Your computer has IE built into it, try IE, see what happens

1. Firefox DNS prefetching sucks and at times causes problems including the one you are expirencing, as well as very slow web browsing in general. View this webpage to learn how to disable DNS prefetching: developer.mozilla.org/en/controlling_dns_prefetching

2. Corrupted TIF (temporary internet file) cache. Download CCleaner (its free, and it love you forever), and clean your computer with it. WARNING, this will delete your internet history, and possibly your saved passwords.

3. Its a problem with the DNS server your computer is using, you can try staticly setting this, but with it being a work computer, that may not be such a good idea. If you are in a Windows Domain Environment, changing the DNS server from the PDC's IP to an outside IP could screw up a whole host of other issues. If it comes to this though, I will give you some directions.

4. Its a problem with your ISP, and there isn't really anything you can do about it. I

Hope this helps some what.

You are just part of the majority there, nothing to be bothered about.

I could talk you through changing your DNS if you wanna, but it will probably have to be tomorrow, I am gonna slack off for like 10 more minutes, and then leave early.

people still use digg?

JHO, I think a setting like "enable java scripts" or "allow active-x controls" or some such nonsense has gotten set incorrectly. I'm not a web geek so I can't be sure or tell you how to fix it but that's my hunch. If your work 'puter is managed by a tech staff that pushes software updates at you through a network app manager then they may have inadvertantly pushed something at you that screwed up your ability to view some web pages correctly.

Start ---> Control Panel
Network Connections (Double Click)
Local Area Connection (or maybe wireless connection, depending on desktop or laptop), hopfully you only have one
Properties
Find "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and highlight it and click properties
VERY IMPORTANT, make a note of what addresses are entered into the DNS Server address fields. Please do not lose this note, you may find that changing these settings causing you some other problems, and have to revert back.
Change these settings to (Primary) 8.8.8.8 (Alternate) 8.8.4.4
Close / reopen internet browser, see if that helped anything.

Let me know, I have some other ideas too, if it still broked.

It sounds like you changed your IP address, instead of your DNS address, and re reading my instructions, I definitely forgot to tell you which box to edit. So, yeah, that was my bad.

You can try changing the DNS addresses (the lower two boxes on that properties page) if you want, but I can understand if you don't want to mess with it anymore.

One last thing, have you tried yelling obscenities at your computer and kicking it? That helps some times.

You should txt Jesse and tell him to come hook you up with some free IT help when he isn't busy. Or if you want, after lunch, I can crossloop into your computer and take a quick (like 10 minutes max) crack at it.

Sorry for the confusion.

That's ok. Thanks for trying to help though! I will survive without those webpages

Thanks Jess, but it doesn't seem to be my ABP. Just disabled it and I still have the same issue.

However, an interesting note, on the etsy site, from that weird text version I posted above, I went to the "register" link, and when the new page loaded, it was perfectly fine! But once I signed in, the rest of the pages went back to being the weird text page. I don't know what's different about the Register page than the others... but hey, that one works.

^^ Believe it or not, I have all of those things in my desk drawer!