Is anyone else being driven bonkers this evening by that "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?..." message when posting tonight? I'm getting it about two out of every three times I post a reply to the forum. I know enough how to jump through hoops to avoid answering it, and the duplicate posts that get generated whenever that message shows up and you reply to it. But it's been a really annoying "feature" tonight. I know it can be an occasional (rare) thing, but tonight it's just been ridiculous.
No I don't want to "...navigate away from this page"!!!
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hey, rick - any problems with your connection?
the few times i encountered that message lately my verizon speed had reached dismal lows
xp pro - ff 19
the few times i encountered that message lately my verizon speed had reached dismal lows
xp pro - ff 19
I only get it if I start to post something, remove the text and then try to navigate somewhere without clicking on cancel (...that is normal)
I don't know if it's a speed issue. I just posted here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/385262-cartomizer-question.html#post8749485
and... duplicate post. But this time I didn't even get the "Are you sure you want to ..." error message box. Hit "post" - only once - the page seemed to take forever to load, and when it did load the post was up twice. This time the original and the duplicate had someone else's post sandwiched in between the two. How could a slow internet connection cause that?
What the heck is going on?
and... duplicate post. But this time I didn't even get the "Are you sure you want to ..." error message box. Hit "post" - only once - the page seemed to take forever to load, and when it did load the post was up twice. This time the original and the duplicate had someone else's post sandwiched in between the two. How could a slow internet connection cause that?
What the heck is going on?
not sure, rick. a couple of months ago there was a problem with ecf but it's been running pretty smoothly for me. but there have been a few reports of ecf running slow so idk.
with multiple servers going, have you tried signing out and then back on?
with multiple servers going, have you tried signing out and then back on?
sign out and clear your cookies. if you get the "are you sure you want to leave this page" dialog there is also a setting in firefox that you can change. I just cant remember what it is right now. I'm sure someone here does though
That actually makes it seem much more likely that latency somewhere was the cause. TCP packets -- the data packets that make up about 70% of the traffic in the internet -- contain an encapsulated header for the data, which includes resubmit information in case the traffic is lost or interrupted. The goal is to make the data connection redundant in times of line issues; as a side effect, packets can be re-transmitted if the sender doesn't receive a reply back from the receiver.
It sounds to me like you hit submit, and the server acknowledged it -- however your end did not receive the acknowledgement, so it retransmitted. The 2nd retransmission occurred in a slight gap between your post and another post, leading to the post in between.
Its entirely theoretical on my part; but given the nature of packet transmission on the internet, it seems quite likely to me.
Ok, clear cookies... whoa! ECF had 57 cookies set on my computer. Is that in the realm of normal for ECF?
I have had my browser opened and closed more than once during the problem. Connected and disconnected more than once from the internet too. I seem to have noticed that the ECF session cookies aren't clearing after the browser is closed, even though they were all flagged to (supposedly) do so. At least at end of session. Will have to keep an eye on that to see if it actually is the case.
In the mean time I'll see what happens....
I have had my browser opened and closed more than once during the problem. Connected and disconnected more than once from the internet too. I seem to have noticed that the ECF session cookies aren't clearing after the browser is closed, even though they were all flagged to (supposedly) do so. At least at end of session. Will have to keep an eye on that to see if it actually is the case.
In the mean time I'll see what happens....
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