ExplorOz Forum becoming unusable

yes regularly,very annoying

No problem here. Firefox and XP..

"Another symptom is when I go over the monthly allowance and I'm controlled back to dialup speed - there's no point trying to view the EO.."

Yep - same here - not neccessarily a bad thing - tend to do more work then:)

Cheers
Greg

Maybe a:
- antivirus issue
- java script issue


Download and run:
- ccleaner (dot com) (clean up temp files and reg)
- firefox (faster than IE8) and "Adblock Plus" + "NoScript" add-ons from mozilla (dot org)


Exploroz use a lot of scripts and image/flash items.

Mike,

In the office we have 6 computers running 2 or 3 browser versions each almost all day and always using ExplorOz.com - mine in particular using IE 7 and FF 3 (Vista 64) - Michelle uses IE8 and FF (on a 4 year old slower powered computer) (XP) so we have the IE versions covered and we never close the browser down unless we reboot the systems. My current IE session has been running for 2 days now and there is no 100% CPU issue in fact right now typing this entry 4 % is the max I can see and the RAM usage is less than 100MB. My firefox session is running at 410MB as I have been running debuggers on the places system for the last few hours so this is to be expected however still only max 5% while typing this response.

So I wonder what you issue may be - try a flash update as there have been a number of errors in earlier versions of the flash player. Other than this what security product are you using? Try disabling it for a period and see what happens and/or make sure you whitelist www.exploroz.com.

I have NO on-going reports of crashes or performance issues at all since about 8 weeks ago when I made significant changes to the back end code to move the mapping systems to another machine. If we can help we will try however I suspect your issue may be isolated and has certainly not been reported to me by any other site users.

As for the performance when you are slowed - have a read of this blog entry it is not just for ExplorOz.com however all Internet connections running on slowed services - Optimising Shaped Connections - let me know if this works for you? I am working on a caching update that may help a bit and will be installed in the next day or so however I expect this will make little difference - but you never know.

DM

Using XP v2002-SP3 with Firefox 3.0.8 on the Asus notebook, the site runs like a beauty for me. The only time I get any snags is when there has been a one-off 'event' such as last week with the blog-bog.

Yes me too Mike. I tried to load some photos on my profile last night but gave up.

May be a Qld thing, I get similar problems with xp - ie8, if we can't fix the water, how we gunna fix the net.

cheers

We have the same problem. I wanted to get on EO the other night about 11pm, and gave up in the end. I was in a hurry and wanted to show Geoff something, did a heap of swearing and banging the mouse, and in the end gave up muttering I dont why we paid to become members when you cant even open the dam site. Doesn't happen a lot, mostly when I want to show someone something. I get over it after a day or so, and come back to read the forum. We are running IE & FF 3.5, and neither of them would open the site.
Karen

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Don't have any dramas here
Running XP Pro, service Pack 3, 1.60 gigahertz AMD Sempron, 512 MB RAM
FF, About 3 years old.

Process Explorer
Or
RootRepeal

Wouldn't hurt to run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

Hope these are of some help to windows users.

Gidday

I am a bit of a computer dunce and have had major issues with IE three times in the last month, usually after automatic updates. These have involved lengthy phone calls to Microsoft support. Yes, you can ring them and they are helpful if it is their software.

After two succesful fixes the third drew a blank and I decided it might be a good time to try Firefox.

Strangely after downloading Firefox IE started to work! Maybe Big Brother (aka Microsoft) was watching!

I am using both browsers as a bit of a trial but have already found that some sites, notably EO forum and the Real Estate Institute of WA site, work faster in Firefox. It has taken a bit of fiddling to get it how I like it but it has been worthwhile.

Maybe it will work better for you, the download is free and doesnt take long.

Cheers


Rocco

Mike , yes we have exactly the same problem. It used to be more frequent when using IE. But not as often now with firefox, but is very frustrating as it is the ONLY website we have a probem with, and i have about 72 saved into my favs list.
I thought it just might be because of all the info loaded onto EO , that it takes sooo much time to load up the page each time. Anyway for now ,I just keep on persevering.

cheers unc

Has anyone used "Readyboost " It evidently speeds up your computer. All you need is an equivalent memory stick to your Ram this is supposed to be an easy fix to expand Ram. Any thoughts Steve..

just a heads up , incase you didn't know ---windows xp is not the be all to end all in regards to reliability - over the year ( or years ) you install and uninstall a lot of things - some files get left behind in the registry ..... these files are what slows your computer down - you can try clean your computer with various progs out there -- but eventually you have to just do a complete format and reinstall

i do this at least once every 1 - 2 years --- found the computer runs excellent afterwords are everything is " Fresh " again

so its not this site - its your computer

Boc

Hi All,
it's not often that I have a problem gaining access to EO, but when I do, I just give up and come back later. A bit of a pain, I admit. Didn't realise others were having the same problem. And No, it's not happening on other sites that I can see. I figured it was just to do with routing to the EO site that's getting choked somewhere.

However, I have noticed, that it usually happens after a windows update. I am running Vista and IE7. Talked to a couple of local IT guys who won't even touch IE8, yet! So go figure.

Mike & Others,

Just loaded a css caching tool and setup caching on heaps of images and cleaned up some other stuff so see if this makes any difference. We do not see it playing up in the office so it is hard to find a solution as most users do not have any problems like these. Anyway see what happens now.

DM

I generally run IE6 because I like it. Tried IE7 and IE8 and deleted them.
I don't experience any problems apart from the occasional Server error message which is not related to any specific brower applications.

I also have Firefox 3.5.1 which I use from time to time but IE6 is still my preferred browser.

I do experience problems with my email via Bigpond each month when I receive the monthly newsletter. For some reason Bigpond does a hissy fit when I attempt to transfer my emails to MS Outlook. After logging into my Bigpond Webmail account and deleting the newsletter, other outstanding emails are downloaded to Outlook without problems.

I put it down to some formatting problem between the Exploroz Newsletter email and Bigpond. I never received this problem with my previous ISP.

I have worked out a workaround and just live with it.

Bill.