GC problem causing Internet Explorer to Crash?

Interesting - we upgraded to IE8 a few months ago and I haven't had problems here since.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there was an operating system for computers that didn't cause these problems?!

 

If I use Firefox to log on to this forum whenever I click on any post / link I persistently get the following message, most annoying, any clues please? Regards Dave.

 

I tried to load the file identified in your error message (/styles/default/xenforo/gradients/category-23px-light.png) , and I get a "not found" message too. So presumably it really does not exist

It is possible that your browser (or the device you are using - e.g. a tablet / whatever) is using a style sheet (or erroneously, if there is a bug in your browser) and thus deducing that it needs that file. Might be that your browser should be loading it, but because it is missing that's giving and error, but if you browser is wrongly trying to load it then it is correct that it aint there!

First-up I would make sure that Firefox is up to date, just in case there is a newer version that fixes the problem

I checked what my browser is loading, and it is loading the file:

/forum/styles/default/xenforo/gradients/category-23px-light.png
i.e. I have the "forum" bit on the front, you don't.

It may not be as simple as your browser wrongly failing to add the prefix - its possible your browser is seeing a different stylesheet to mine, and that stylesheet (wrongly) has the "/forum/" prefix missing. Or

your browser has a bug and it should be adding that, but isn't :(

If there is no upgrade, or it doesn't fix it, then it looks like you are stuck

 

Other Xenforo forums (only checked a few) don't use the forum bit in between web address and styles, so presumably Acorn could be using them and not experience any problem, making this issue appear GC specific to him.

 

Might be that that bit, in the style sheet, has not been mod'd then? and perhaps applies only to browser / tablet ("responsive CSS") or somesuch

 

Thanks Kristen......the issue is even more anomalous in that when the "Not Found" message appears on screen, by simply clicking the "Back" button the D.T. computer proceeds to open the selected link so it is not a case of the file not being available. This does not -as I mentioned - happen if I use I.E. so it is not the end of the world just an unexplainable hurdle. Cheers Dave.

 

Odd indeed, now I think about it, because the "missing file" is an image. Normally as you wander around the site you wind up on HTML "pages", not a single image. The style sheet will want to load all sorts of images - for the "furniture" on the page - but if any are not found it will simply ignore them [and possibly muck up the display as a consequence], so to wind up on a "not found" page does seem odd.

Apologies for a numpty suggestion, but you weren't double clicking the original link? I was just wondering if the first click loaded the page and the second one attempted to open the erroneous link to the "Missing image".

Did you get a chance to check if you have the latest version of Firefox?

But as you say, it is something you can work around, so maybe not worth attempting to find a solution