MSE works better on Firefox?

Graham03

I logged into MSE and kept trying to submit a message. Every time I clicked Submit or Preview, I was informed my message was less than 10 characters long, and was advised to lengthen it. This was clearly nonsense, but it happened every time - until I switched from IE to Mozilla Firefox. Now I can submit messages again (like this one) :j

Not sure if this has ever been mentioned. MSE doesn't seem to work on IE anymore.

Graham

pippamannequin

Might give it a try, I'm constantly (2/3) times a day being booted off MSE and get IE cannot display the page message, the only way I can get back on here is by unplugging my router and starting it up again. Been happening for ages

superscaper

News to me. I'm currently (and have done for years) using Internet Explorer with this site. Not seen any of the problems described. So can't possibly a general problem of not working with IE.

PeteHerts

May sound a silly question but have you updated to IE7 and/or updated Windows updates recently?

Graham03

PeteHerts wrote: »

May sound a silly question but have you updated to IE7 and/or updated Windows updates recently?

No I haven't made any recent upgrades so that's not the problem. I use IE6; can't have IE7 on my machine anyway as it's too old. IE6 seems to work OK for other websites I visit; it's only MSE I get a problem with. And this works just fine on Firefox.

superscaper

Maybe that is the problem. IE6 is nowhere near as secure as IE7. If you run XP (ignore if not), I don't see why you can't install IE7. I've installed it on incredibly outdated machines without problems. Are you keeping Windows updated anyway? Critical updates are just that, critical.

PeteHerts

Graham03 wrote: »

No I haven't made any recent upgrades so that's not the problem. I use IE6; can't have IE7 on my machine anyway as it's too old. IE6 seems to work OK for other websites I visit; it's only MSE I get a problem with. And this works just fine on Firefox.

I think you mis-understood my post and as Superscaper said you need those updates.
Do all the Microsoft updates including upgrading to IE7 and let us know if it's any better.

espresso

PeteHerts wrote: »

I think you mis-understood my post and as Superscaper said you need those updates.
Do all the Microsoft updates including upgrading to IE7 and let us know if it's any better.

I think that you have misunderstood his post! There are still lots of people running Win 98.

What I can't understand is why the OP still uses IE6 when Firefox is far superior.

PeteHerts

espresso wrote: »

I think that you have misunderstood his post! There are still lots of people running Win 98.

What I can't understand is why the OP still uses IE6 when Firefox is far superior.

I don't think I did as the OP never mentioned he was running Win 98 just that his machine was old and as Superscaper mentioned IE7 can be put on old machines.
The OP did mention he hasn't done any upgrades recently so this may mean the updates haven't been done lately so do the basics first then go from there if the problem still persists.

espresso

PeteHerts wrote: »

I don't think I did as the OP never mentioned he was running Win 98 just that his machine was old and as Superscaper mentioned IE7 can be put on old machines.

Well I would never install IE7 on an old WIN98 machine (if it is) as it's just full of bloatware.

The OP did mention he hasn't done any upgrades recently so this may mean the updates haven't been done lately so do the basics first then go from there if the problem still persists.

If it is an old OS machine, there are no updates.

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PeteHerts

If being the word :rotfl: