Ironwolf | 23 Jan 2012 6:02 a.m. PST |
Bill, Not sure if this is an bug or a problem on my end. But up until a few days ago when I clicked on a topic and read it. The topic header changed colors. Now when I click on a topic and read it, the color does not change. It stays the same. Polls are doing the same thing, so when I click on a poll it shows I already voted but the topic subject does not change color? Hope I explained that right as I'm not very computer tech savy. lol |
Jeff Ewing | 23 Jan 2012 6:17 a.m. PST |
When you say it doesn't change, do you mean it displays in blue (probably) and then should become purple (again probably) after you read it, but does not? What you are describing is called a "visited link." The list of these links is stored in browser. What has probably happened is that your browser has lost this list. Did you "Clear History" or anything along these lines? It could also be a setting in browser, to pull fresh content every time you hit a site. What browser are you using? Try using another browser, see if the behavior is consistent: browsehappy.com |
IGWARG1 | 23 Jan 2012 8:23 a.m. PST |
I have the same problem. About once a week topics that I visit stopped being dark red and remain blue. It only happening on TMP and I have to clear browsing history for entire computer for everything on TMP to return to normal. It didn't use to do that until about few months ago. |
MajorB | 23 Jan 2012 9:28 a.m. PST |
It all works fine for me, changing colour as usual. But then I am using Firefox. |
Jeff Ewing | 23 Jan 2012 11:00 a.m. PST |
All right, so I try never to think about IE if I can avoid it, but here's how to check the history expiration: Go to "Tools -> Internet Option" The second section in the resulting dialog is "Browsing History." Hit the "Settings" button; the second section of this dialog asks how long to keep browsing history. The default is 20 days. Try setting to something higher; see if that helps. IGWARG1, if your number is set to "7" that would explain why the visited links "die" after a week. NB: If you are using IE's "Private Browsing" the list never gets added to. |
CeruLucifus | 23 Jan 2012 11:03 a.m. PST |
Works fine for me too: IE 8 on two systems with Win 7 64-bit (I believe browser is defaulting to 32-bit though) and on a third system with Win 7 32-bit. The problem being described sounds to me like corruption in the browser's internal database. Clearing cache etc would fix that but it's odd that it comes back. If that's the case, TMP is not the culprit, it's just that you visit TMP a lot so your browser cache is disproportionately full of TMP items, so when the cache index goes bad, odds are good TMP is the site affected. Admittedly I'm guessing. Also by any chance are you using the InPrivate browsing feature? (Ctrl-Shift-P opens an InPrivate session on Internet Explorer.) That's the terminology on IE although all the major browsers have a similar feature. This opens a new session and flushes it history afterwards, so history is not saved. Another possibility is if your Windows user settings are corrupted. IE by default stores all its history, cache etc underneath your user folder (other browsers probably too although the only one I'm certain about is Chrome). If that folder structure becomes corrupted, that would affect the browser history; in fact it's likely the browser history would be affected earlier than anything else since it reads and writes so much. This would be fixable by running hard drive diagnostics and doing what they tell you. If the underlying cause is a memory leak from running the computer too long, more frequent reboots would probably eliminate the behavior (a RAM upgrade might too). And you'd want to be sure you're current on your OS patches. If that doesn't seem to be it, it's possible your hard drive is starting to go bad (boo hiss). Back up your data and run frequent diagnostics until you're sure one way or the other. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 23 Jan 2012 12:15 p.m. PST |
TMP instructs your browser to show visited and unvisited links as different colors (blue and purple). That's in the TMP stylesheet, and should always be the same. So my guess is that this is a problem in your browser and not on this end
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Ironwolf | 28 Jan 2012 12:34 p.m. PST |
Thanky for all the replies and fixes. Mine always was blue until I read the topic then it turned red. I'm off to try these and see what works. Thanky |
Ironwolf | 28 Jan 2012 12:40 p.m. PST |
Jeff Ewing Your simple instructions worked perfectly. All back to normal in my TMP world. lol Thanky |