Upgrade 2012 - Problems & Help

[Groggy]

Last night uBeaut did a lot of testing with various browsers. The outcome was:

Firefox - excellent

Internet Explorer 8 - slow but seems to work

Internet Explorer 9 - has known problems (worldwide) and caused a lot of problems when attempting to use it to create posts on the forums. Inserting smilies caused a number of crashes. It is recommended members do not use IE9 as this is not a forum upgrade issue.

No doubt uBeaut will add some more when he has had a snooze.

[ubeaut]

To anyone having a problem here is the simple fiX for almost everythig.

GER RID OF IE9.

Over 2 hours of testing last night showed that IE9 was the cause of most of the problems encountered by members.

I logged in with another members registration info (with his approval) and if I get approval from him I will put the entire series of tests in this forum for all to see. If not I can assure you that the major problem is definitely IE9.

My recommendations:

• Download Firefox, install it and use it. Not a glitch to be found.
  
• Use IE8 in preference to IE9 it doesn't appear to have the same problems
  
• DO NOT upgrade to Internet Explorer 9
  
• Use Google Chrome in preference to any of the later IE's
  
• Use Firefox in preference to any other browser
  
• Do regular updates to Windows and it's components
  
• DON'T USE IE9

Finally:
Just in case no one got the message above.......
GET RID OF IE9
GET RID OF IE9
GET RID OF IE9
GET RID OF IE9
GET RID OF IE9
GET RID OF IE9

[_fly_]

To anyone having a problem here is the simple fiX for almost everythig.

A link or explanation on how to uninstall ie9 back to ie8 would be useful for those that don't know how to rollback.

And my firefox still does not work properly (I've posted in this thread).

Peter

[Humphrey9999]

Operating System: Windows
Operating System Version: XP SP3
Browser: IE
Browser version: 8

The slideshow viewer is still not working properly.
Won't advance to second pic and won't close without refreshing the page.

So, we have to stick with IE8 forever if we wish to see this site properly, or will the other incompatibility issues be fixed at this end eventually?

[Groggy]

A link or explanation on how to uninstall ie9 back to ie8 would be useful for those that don't know how to rollback.

This should help those that want it. Revert from Internet Explorer 9 to Internet Explorer 8 on Win 7

[ubeaut]

A link or explanation on how to uninstall ie9 back to ie8 would be useful for those that don't know how to rollback.

And my firefox still does not work properly (I've posted in this thread).

You say your firefox is OLD.... So update it to the latest version 15.0.1. Help yourself and maybe things will work better for you. Please don't bringing any more problems in here until you have fixed your end. Then at least we'll know if it's a problem with the program or with the users. Most appear to be with users either through IE9 or in your case old programs. You need to keep up to date at your end to make things work at this end.

Neil

PS If you don't want the side column to show hit the little tag to the right of it.

[chrisb691]

I have rolled my Windows 7 back to IE8, and will report back any mitigations of Forum issues.

[_fly_]

You say your firefox is OLD.... So update it to the latest version 15.0.1. Help yourself and maybe things will work better for you. Please don't bringing any more problems in here until you have fixed your end. Then at least we'll know if it's a problem with the program or with the users. Most appear to be with users either through IE9 or in your case old programs. You need to keep up to date at your end to make things work at this end.

Neil

PS If you don't want the side column to show hit the little tag to the right of it.

The little tag to the right does not work in my firefox (and doesn't show in IE) and the reduce tag still collects all the data, it just doesn't show it.
Tell ya what, don't worry about it.
Peter

[ubeaut]

The little tag to the right does not work in my firefox (and doesn't show in IE) and the reduce tag still collects all the data, it just doesn't show it.
Tell ya what, don't worry about it.
Peter

Like I said in the previous post please upgrade your Firefox and don't use IE9.

Then come back and tell us what happens. Even if the problems are fixed come and tell us. No one can fix what's not working at your end. Only you can do that and until they are it's a waste of time reporting or commenting on problems as there will be nothing that can be done from this end.

[FenceFurniture]

Is there a way of not showing all the reputation info in "Settings"? I don't see anything that will collapse it.

Windows XP
Firefox 15 (latest release)

Thanks
Brett

[ubeaut]

Settings > General Settings > Reputation Level > Hide Reputation > Save Changes.

You can't turn off the reputations you see on your Settings screen. If you do you won't know when the mods or admin or anyone else reckon you've done the wrong thing.

You know... green for good red for bad

Cheers - Neil blue for couldn't care less

[iron bark]

Neil,

I replied to your email re using the info you gained and said by all means use it if it helps others, then noticed at the bottom it said don't reply to this email?? Anyway, if you need to use it do so.

I have changed from IE9 to firefox and this is the third straight post with no sign of the original problem. Well done to the team.

Cheers,

Ned

[FenceFurniture]

You know... green for good red for bad

Green? What Green?

[ubeaut]

Neil,

I replied to your email re using the info you gained and said by all means use it if it helps others, then noticed at the bottom it said don't reply to this email?? Anyway, if you need to use it do so.

I have changed from IE9 to firefox and this is the third straight post with no sign of the original problem. Well done to the team.

Cheers,

Ned

Thanks for that. Will put it on in a while.

Cheers - Neil

PS Pood to see your problem has been fixed. Now all we need is for all the others with problems to do the same.

[doug3030]

I was logged in to the forum and was actively composing a reply to a post just this evening. when I hit reply, I recieved the message: " you need to be logged in to reply. While I was composing the reply the system logged me off!

Fortunately, I an mow treating the woodworkforums software the same as I treat the crappy software I have to use at work and had blocked on all text and hit [ctrl]c before hitting [submit post] so I was able to log back in and click [reply to thread] and [ctrl v] to repost the content.. It is sad that it has come to that stage.

Is it possible to roll back to the old software until the new providor gets their $#!t all in the one sock?