Per our previous thread, WordPress.com tech support advises:
We were able to track down the issue with Ad Control and fix it for you. It appears to have been IE-specific, so you may need to clear your browser’s cache to notice a difference.
So do that, or start using Chrome or Firefox or Opera or Safari, or…
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I didn’t do anything and it seems all good. So not even cache emptying is needed.
Thanks!
WordPress – the font of all wisdom.
At least WUWT no longer comes to you in a serious eye strain version!
ABE is your friend: anything but explorer.
I’m intrigued by the ad that followed the
“So do that, or start using Chrome or Firefox or Opera or Safari, or…”
It was a supplier of laser diodes. I’m trying to work out what it is about Watts ….
That’s it!!!! WATT, that is also why fluke were advertising yesterday.
Thanks – very glad to have my eysight restored!
Ghostery is an add-on to Firefox which is all by itself enough reason to switch. By disabling (some or all) embedded tracking scripts, etc., it about doubles (or more) loading speed. Then there’s Greasemonkey, whose CA tool enhances the input box with formatting, linking, blockquote, strikeout, and Preview. And Lazarus, that records and saves everything you type, allowing quick recovery when an entry goes blooey.
ABE, indeed! But Firefox is loaded with benefits like the above.
Full disclosure: I get a 50% commission on everyone who switches, on the $0 purchase price. Please quote the Special Code, IwuzanIEsukah.
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Good.
May I spread a warning- I recently received an email purporting to be from Fedex. It contained a Trojan Horse which was difficult to remove.(several hours of AVG scans and reinstalling affected programs) So unless you expect an email from the genuine Fedex spam it don’t open it.
give thanx u r back to normal, anthony…
Scottish Sceptic is intrigued by the ad that followed the
“So do that, or start using Chrome or Firefox or Opera or Safari, or…”
My ad was for “High Precision, Ultra Stable Temperature Controllers & Laser Diode Drivers” and ended with
I wonder if their mention of Firefox and IE helped in the ad selection too.
A site like WUWT that demands rigorous proof in most things climatological, before demonizing a piece of software should require more information than, “It appears to have been IE-specific,” My IE8 never experienced a problem.
Just for rambling’s sake… as a Web developer I’ve always found it easiest to develop for IE, then pretty much everything else is a minor tweak away from done. This latest project I’ve been on I have pretty much abandoned IE, which for me is a big deal. Yes, the site will work on it, but, you’re on your own for styling. Period. Maybe IE10. Maybe they’ll figure it out for 11. Or 12. Or whenever.
And, for the firefox proponents, you’re not in the clear either. The current version of FF has enough bugs and anomalous behaviors that I’m not even testing on it. Too bad, so sad, get Chrome.
As much as I despise google and their policies and politics, they’ve made the best current browser. Sigh.
“appears to have been IE-specific”
Hate to say “I told you so”…. but IE has been an HTML nightmare since Bill Gates was in diapers. To repeat an old Microsoft joke: ” How many Microsoft engineers would it take to change a lightbulb.? Answer: None. Microsoft would just make darkness the new standard.”.
Looking Good.
Thanks Anthony for all the hard work fixing this irritating issue.
No cache emptying needed here either. All’s good, as if none of it ever happenned. Thank you all !
Anthony, that thing with you and IE, it must have been very bad and no, no need need to explain.
Can someone PLEASE put a bullet to the back of IE’s head and put us all out of our misery. IE has single-handedly set web engineering back 5 to 10 years. And anyone who builds a site (not this one of course) that “requires” IE should be made to run the gauntlet of the internet town square being socially stoned to death for being to stupid to live a productive life. Off soapbox now.
John Marshall, I got the same email. However since it was a zip file with an windows executable included my iMac was not at risk. FedEx have a recorded message on their customer service warning people about this email message.
Brian – I have searched the Firefox site without success for a way to stop twitter from being attached to the pages I open. It constantly slows things down, and I don’t want it. Adblock removes some of them, but is there an easy way to delete twitter altogether?
Anthony and mods – I have lost the ‘older posts’ link at the bottom of the page and need to go to the monthly link to find them. I get a bar at the bottom of the page over the top of the text about WordPress and its style.
I am running the latest Firefox on a PC with (blush) Vista. The problems mentioned above are not critical, but something has changed for the worse in the last few weeks.
Paul Coppin says:
March 13, 2012 at 4:41 am
but IE has been an HTML nightmare since Bill Gates was in diapers.
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The first web browser was invented in 1990 … Microsoft responded with its Internet Explorer in 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser
Wonder how much of this is google playing with microsoft’s head.. A little mischief here and there keeps customers coming to chrome.
johanna;
Ghostery add-on appears to do the job. Just don’t exclude Twitter (white-list it) in the widgets list.
You will note after installing that every time you open a new page, a little drop-down info tab briefly appears, showing the scripts blocked and permitted. Twitter is blocked now on mine.
Or for simple raw speed, without some bells and whistles that you might otherwise like, try Opera. Tiny memory footprint. I sometimes use it when attacking my massive webmail inbox backlog, e.g.. And it has a very nice feature called Opera Unite which allows “hosting” of your own photos etc.
johanna;
I have a previous post and later post links by title at the top just under the WUWT title bar. I also keep 4 WUWT tabs open at all times: Home, current post being read, Sea Ice Resource, and Tips & Notes. Any story off email notification or the home page gets drag-dropped onto the current post tab.
Works for me! 😉
johanna says:March 13, 2012 at 5:48 am
Anthony and mods – I have lost the ‘older posts’ link at the bottom of the page and need to go to the monthly link to find them. I get a bar at the bottom of the page over the top of the text about WordPress and its style.
I have the same problem, on XP w/SP3, Firefox 10.0.2. Tried Brian H’s suggestion of Ghostery, no change. Tried turning on and off each tracking item one at a time and refreshing the site. No change. This problem has been ongoing since the first week of Feb. 2012, and not on other WordPress sites.
For those who want ad blockers like Ghostery, bear in mind that in lieu of big oil funding and manna from Greenpeace or WWF, WUWT gets revenue generation from Google adwords and pay per click. It isn’t a lot but helps go towards my kids college fund, which with the way college cost are escalating in California, I may have to relocate someplace else to send them to college.
So thanks in advance for keeping the ads.
Truthseeker and John Marshal — Having been bit once many Moons ago from both an email and a webpage redirect, I learned to turn on the ‘Status’ bar on my browsers. Then just hovering over the link you can see the actual URL it will establish. With FF, go to ‘View’ – ‘Toolbars’ – ‘Add-on bar’ and select it. With IE8, go to ‘View’ – Toolbars’ – ‘Status bar’ and Lock the bars to supposedly prevent webpages changing your layout.
Thanks to whoever recommended “Ghostery” – that’s a great Add-on for FF. I just put it up with no revisions or white-lists and it hasn’t blocked anything I need! 😎