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    Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:20
Today my computer is acting very strange. I downloaded Firefox about a week ago and I have been visiting this site without a problem. However, today, I could not login. I submitted my name and password several times and got the welcome back screen thing and I was still not logged in. Then I went back on Internet Explorer and it's working fine as always. Is this a one time fluke or is there something wrong? Any one have a similar issue? Any advice?
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Points: 65592 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:25
I recently switched to Firefox from Safari (Internet Explorer before that) and though it has some very good features it also has some weird ones... though I don't have to log in to PA each time,  if I want to switch back to Safari, I do.  Firefox also seems to have some glitches that Safari doesn't.  Both have disadvantages but I guess Firefox is more common and updated...  yeah, I don't know
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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:29
Yes.

In Firefox go to Tools>Options

Select the Privacy tab then "Show Cookies"
 Browse down the list until you come to "progarchives.com" click on the name and then click "remove cookie"

Log out of PA then Log back in and everything should be fine.
Worked for me.
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Points: 11682 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:30
I like it because it's a bit faster, but if it keeps glitching like this, I'm dumping it.
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Points: 11682 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:31
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Yes.

In Firefox go to Tools>Options

Select the Privacy tab then "Show Cookies"
 Browse down the list until you come to "progarchives.com" click on the name and then click "remove cookie"

Log out of PA then Log back in and everything should be fine.
Worked for me.

That worked perfectly.
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:34
I think my last log-in to PA was right after my last Windows reinstall, somewhen in spring. Of course I use Firefox Cool
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Points: 4309 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:49
I use Firefox and have never had that problem. I'd also pick Firefox over Internet Explorer any day. It's faster and more practical to use.
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Points: 7744 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 18:55
For the last time, Foxtrot is the best album ever!!!

Woops, misread the thread's title.

Still, the vote goes for the one that starts with F.
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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 19:04
Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Yes.

In Firefox go to Tools>Options

Select the Privacy tab then "Show Cookies"
 Browse down the list until you come to "progarchives.com" click on the name and then click "remove cookie"

Log out of PA then Log back in and everything should be fine.
Worked for me.

That worked perfectly.
Thanks Tony! Clap

You're welcome.

Have you installed adblock plus? If not get it from the Firefox add-ons page and then block every advert on PA.

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Points: 11682 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 19:17
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Yes.

In Firefox go to Tools>Options

Select the Privacy tab then "Show Cookies"
 Browse down the list until you come to "progarchives.com" click on the name and then click "remove cookie"

Log out of PA then Log back in and everything should be fine.
Worked for me.

That worked perfectly.
Thanks Tony! Clap

You're welcome.

Have you installed adblock plus? If not get it from the Firefox add-ons page and then block every advert on PA.

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That was the first thing I did after I installed it. Every iPod free (pun certainly intended) visit to PA is so refreshing.
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 19:19
Nothing's perfect, though. What bugs me about Firefox is that it is the most resource consuming program I use; for examples it consumes a double amount of memory than IE. I just checked. When they're both started on blank page, Firefox is shown as consuming 28824K of memory, and IE with only 15828K. After loading www.progarchives.com, Firefox is shown with a 45735k consume, and IE with only 26396k. And that really "hurts", especially when having a crappy old computer like mine, with only 256M DDRAM...
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Points: 4318 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 19:53
Opera or Firefox. Opera for me.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 19:58
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

[QUOTE=moreitsythanyou] [QUOTE=Tony R]Yes.


Have you installed adblock plus? If not get it from the Firefox add-ons page and then block every advert on PA.

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Thanks for the tip, the overabundance of annoying ads has been really getting to me lately, the invasive watch this ad while you page "loads" type, the ones with noise in particular.  Really sucks if you're trying to listen to music while you're here.  Hope you don't get into to trouble for sharing that.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 21:32
Do you manually block stuff or subscribe?  I'm finding a few of the ad's not blockable as they aren't recognized as ads but rather flashplayer entities.


Edited by Slartibartfast - September 27 2007 at 21:34
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2007 at 04:01
In my opinion, if you manually block everything you're missing most of the functionality of Adblock Plus. If it weren't for subscriptions there'd be no real advantage over using the Opera content blocker.
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Does a subscription automatically block the flash ads?
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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