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Rooners · 07/12/2013 07:26

I'm really quite fed up.

The last week or more there's been a glitch in the PM system. Many of us can't click on 'Message Poster' any more without it taking us to the top of the page, and no box appearing.

This has never happened before to my knowledge. (I joined in Jan 2007 and have been here through CAT subscriptions and all the other changes since then).

There have been several threads started in Site stuff about this issue. It was sudden and has no apparent precedent - according to my very limited tech knowledge it's pretty clear it's just a glitch.

The thing that's pissed me off a little bit, and actually quite upset me (and others) is that on at least two of the threads, we have been told (in so many words):

'It's your fault for using IE, which is crap. You have to switch to Chrome if you want MN to work properly, IE has never been good for MN'.

I feel horrid about this. It's like they are telling us to switch to Chrome (which I dislike immensely) or lose out on a fairly basic function of MN.

I NEVER normally have any problems on IE with MN - far less than it would appear people using the mobile site etc do - and just don't understand why no one wants to fix this thing.

Is IE 11 really outdated or something? Is the world switching to Google Chrome? Am I missing something?

Please could someone clarify?

Can someone set this straight?

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MurderOfGoths · 07/12/2013 14:03

What ItsAll said. You buy a PC then chances are it's a Windows PC (there are Linux ones, but they are niche), and Windows is Microsoft, hence why they load it with all the Microsoft programs - including IE.

They actually got in to a lot of trouble for that, and nowadays are meant to give people alternatives.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 07/12/2013 13:45

And Windows is piece of shit too... I'm never quite sure why every PC comes with it.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 07/12/2013 13:44

Brand new PCs come preloaded with it because brand new PCs come preloaded with Microsoft windows. Almost any other browser is better than IE.

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Rooners · 07/12/2013 13:29

thanks for explaining...but seriously, if it's that bad then why do so many brand new PCs come with IE preloaded?

I only got this a year ago.

I don't get why no one said, Oh, by the way, don't use the internet it comes with, you'll have to install something else because it's a piece of shit.

My main point though is that I rarely get any bugs or glitches using MN and have been here for an age.

So suddenly that's not true and it's actually not working, and all this time I've been in a parallel universe, thinking I'm on MN but I'm really on some other site that looks like it and works completely differently Wine because if I was on it I'd be having glitches all over the place.

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MurderOfGoths · 07/12/2013 11:17

IE is a buggy piece of shit, always has been. Developers loathe having to write code for IE, some refuse outright. For whatever reason Microsoft have always felt that web standards were for everyone else and not them. Trying to fix code for IE is not usually an easy job as you tend to have to bodge it, pretty much any other browser is better than IE.

Chrome is the best in terms of being most up to date with the latest web coding practise, Firefox is hot on their heels though. Can't remember how Safari and Opera fare.

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Rooners · 07/12/2013 09:24

Thankyou - I just came back online and got it.

I know it works for some people but for a lot of us it just doesn't.

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magimedi · 07/12/2013 08:41

Can't clarify but I use Firefox (from a desktop) & seem to be able to message people OK.

Have just messaged you!