Persistent Posts in Firefox?

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JHEM · #1 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:05 am

Has anyone else using Firefox as their browser noticed a problem on the Forums where topics aren't marked as read after reading them?

E.g., you go into a sub-forum and read or reply to one of the new topics or a new post in a topic, yet when you return to the sub-forum index the topic continues to show as containing new messages. I have to click on "Mark all topics read" to clear the problem. Even this post will show as new rather than read, even though I posted it!

This is strictly a Firefox problem and doesn't occur in IE, nor does it always happen in Firefox but it does happen on several of my machines.

OS is XPSP2 in all instances.

Regards,

James

Leon · #2 Post by **Leon** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:08 am

Sorry, I' running SP2/Firefox and NEVER have the problem. Some other funkiness is happening (I am also curious what).

Maybe the Firefox Gods are angry with you?

JHEM · #3 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:10 am

Leon wrote:Maybe the Firefox Gods are angry with you?

I hope they don't mind waiting their turn!

Regards,

James

yukit · #4 Post by **yukit** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:40 pm

JHEM wrote:Has anyone else using Firefox as their browser noticed a problem on the Forums where topics aren't marked as read after reading them?

I have noticed this when I hit back button to go back to msg list,. I figured that is just teh way it works.

When I hit refresh, the topic status does update properly.

It may be due to my tweaking in config options.

yuki

GoEatFood · #5 Post by **GoEatFood** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:01 pm

I switch from computer to computer a few times in the day...the system running winxp is doing that same thing...didn't think much of it...the machine running win2k is fine though.

#6 Post by **daeojkim** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:10 pm

I know that in IE there is an option in "Temporary internet files" -> setting, you can seet it to dowload new version everytime, automatic, never etc. I guess if you set this to automatic or everytime, behavior that James is seeing might be avoided.

The reason that you are seeing the read post as unread is because firefox is loading the page from cache, which would be an older version, rather than a new verison from the web server.

If you go to tools -> options-> privacy there is an option for cache. I would have thought there would be an option so you can set it to download the webpage everytime, but there isn't such option. May be if you set the cache to 0 it might work. It might slow down the web browsing though.

GoEatFood · #7 Post by **GoEatFood** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:13 pm

I set my firefox browser to 0 cache. there isn't a noticable slow down with a broadband connection...

#8 Post by **daeojkim** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:21 pm

Ok I just tried the 0 cache method that I proposed. It did work for first few times. Then, the same behavior comes back. Odd that is doing that even though the cache is 0.
I wonder if I can put a negative number.

EDIT: I forgot to restart firefox after making changes. Now after I restarted it shows all topics are already read.... odd.

no_man · #9 Post by **no_man** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:33 pm

Using my T30 and WINXP Pro/SP1 and current Firefox: I enter the forum, I request viewing posts since last visit, no problem, when I exit the forum, I logout (nothing else). Always fresh messages, never had any issues doing it this way.

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