21-11-2000 10:13									#1
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I seem to recall discussion about this in the past, but, foolishly, I didn't pay attention. I run both Netscape and IE 4.5. IE handles this site quicker than Netscape. Problem is, when I'm using IE, the site refuses to acknowledge it has met me before. I don't get the date and time of my last visit, I don't get the little coloured boxes telling me which forums have had posts since I last visited. You get the drift.

Now, I have set IE to accept cookies. I've done everything. As far as I know. In the address line, I get, apart from the usual stuff, "intro+BypassCookie=true". Which I don't get with Netscape.

Any (relevant) thoughts most welcome.

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	21-11-2000 11:31									#2
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Enable JavaScript.

	21-11-2000 11:59									#3
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Done that. Any further thoughts?

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	21-11-2000 16:41									#4
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Could it be related to your security settings?

	21-11-2000 17:14									#5
	Remove this text

Well, I just checked the security settings. Nothing seemed untoward. Is there anything in particular I need to check?

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	21-11-2000 18:14									#6
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Mmm. Not sure how, but I seem to have fixed the problem. I changed a couple of the settings - telling IE never to check for changes to pages in the cache, etc. Oh well, the mysteries of the internet.

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	22-11-2000 01:26									#7
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font>telling IE never to check for changes to pages in the cache
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

There's the problem: Internet Exploder does a very bad job of cache management. If a copy of the page is available in the cache, it should check to see if the version is out of date, and fetch a newer copy if it is. However, it never does.
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	22-11-2000 03:34									#8
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

Okay. Thanks for that. On the whole, I've always preferred Netscape because it does everything it's meant to do. It's just slower than IE 4.5, with this site anyway.

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	22-11-2000 16:10									#9
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I had the exact problem that finbar had - except it was with Netscape 6. Then for reason, it began working...

But then now I'm back to IE 'cause Netscape's too slow!

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	23-11-2000 03:24									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Well, I've avoided Netscape 6 after what I've read about it on this and the OT forum. With 4.6, the recognition thing is simply a matter of setting it for cookies to be accepted. IE seems to be a lot more complicated. You're right, though, IE is quicker with this site. Damn it.

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