I have the 'popup blocker' enabled, but that's all, and no separate ad blocker program..
I wonder if I should re-install FF?
I have the 'popup blocker' enabled, but that's all, and no separate ad blocker program..
I wonder if I should re-install FF?
Poppy4 do you have the User Agent Switcher extension installed.
I'm using FF 101 and they all work for me with UAS ext installaed.
I don't think I am Nix....everytime I check the downloads for extensions in 'tools', it tells me there are none?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nix
Go Tools > Extension and then click on Get More Extensions then look for User Agent Switcher or click here https://addons.update.mozilla.org/ex...info.php?id=59
I'll try it, Thanks Nix....if I have any further probs, I'll start a new thread in Isoftware.
poppy
EDIT: NIX it works ....went to the site you posted and installed. Thanks Again!
Poppy4: No worries.
JPNYC: I posted this in the VDR seems a little sick thread but it seems to have been passed over or was the wrong place.
If you do a search by user name it returns a max of 500 posts.
Even if you click on a user id for a post and click on Find all posts by Userid, eg http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sea...r&userid=44944, it still only finds 500.
Is this some imposed limit ?
Anyway to get round it ?
Do you really need more than 500 results Nix? Because it was felt that very few prople would look through even that many, and all it does is to give the server more work to do if the number of results is larger. If there is a compelling case for a larger number of results, then we'll be happy to listen, of course.
500 returns should be way more than enough for any search. Usually anything past the 1st 2 dozen is uneeded.
There have been times when I have searched through my posts by chronological order because I couldn't find them using specific words in either the heading or body and so I have just had to go through looking at the heading and then picking almost randomly until I find the one I'm after.
Of course if I was searching the entire forums then potentially that could be quite limiting depending on the words used.
eg for myself it limits me to post only as far back as 22/12/2004 for the whole forum it could be as little as one month of posts.
I can understand the pressure on the server but thinking about it as I type that is actaully one of my pet hates about the MSKB, that fact that it limits you to searching only 100 threads.
I want a google style search that will bring me back millions of answers if I want but even a Google search for site:www.virtualdr.com nix only got me one hit :(
Just to shift gears a little: isn't there a spellchecker now? And if so, which icon in the reply box is for the spellchecker? I can't find it :rolleyes:
So far as I'm aware there is no spellchecking option built into Vbulletin3, KatMac.
No, there's no spell check. Sorry
Not one that is built in, but I'm sure there's a hack to add such an option. vbulletin.org or .com cover the topic on hacks...
For those wanting a spell checking plug-in there is one for IE called iespell and there is also an extension for Firefox users which goes by another name. hth
Thanks guys, I'll stop looking for it ;) No apology necessary Joe. (Don't know where I got the notion there was a spellchecker, maybe in "pre-upgrade" chats about what might be to come.) At any rate, know you've got enough to contend with right now, so no gripes here, was just curious. :)
SpellBoundQuote:
Originally Posted by Fuelm@n
KatMac--I use IESpell as a spellchecker for IE.
http://www.iespell.com/download.php
After all the suggestions that Jupiter do something about the blank column on the right, it seems they have, at least for the pages of posts within an individual thread (though not for the list of threads). Hooray and Thanks.
Yes, its great to see that JM have some sense, and will listen to us little people once in a while.
For Diana, I realize that you may want to move on to another subject, but the subject of looks in VDr is a very important one to many of us. There are many people here who spend many hours a day on VDr, and want to have as comfortable a time aa possible. I am sure you can understand that. I am sure you would feel the same had your OS suddenly changed, your start button on the right side instead of the left or the taskbar on top instead of the bottom. Its just what we got used to, and for me personally, its also very important. This specific thread was started by myself solely for the purpose of talking about the upgrade of the VBulletin version. It is not to be confused with the thread started by DRMDJ about VDr "being sick". I also think that it is obvious that this thread was neccesary. As it turns out, Jupiter Media listened to our voices and decided to come towards us in their decision making. One could say it is a victory for all, because it keeps the users happy and coming to VDr, and JM happy about the users staying. Besides all that, this is what the Feedback forum is all about, and I am sure that JM and the VDr staff are more than happy to hear what the users think about their VDr experience.
Was this a neccesary thread? Absolutely, in my opinion. I am sure there are a lot of happier users now.
Whats gonna happen to the home page, www.virtualdr.com ? As stated by many, that page needs a drastic make-over. Is it going to happen, and if so, is there a timeline?
Wow, I'd never noticed that before. I've always bookmarked direct to the discussion forums home page. It really is something, isn't it?Quote:
Whats gonna happen to the home page
However, relocating the ad on the threads pages is such a positive, so much of an improvement, that my whole attitude has undergone a quantum change. There are still some things I would like to see changed, I can very definitely live with these folks and the advertising that is required to keep this site in business.
Note that I very much would prefer to see this site changed to that used by "codeguru" rather than seeing the reverse, but.....
Well tell us what you would still like to see changed Bill, that's what this thread is for, and as you can probably tell, we're particularly receptive to suggestions at the moment :D
Nix,
Have you tried the advanced version of the search tool, where you can apply different filters, which will probably reduce the maximum number of search entries required.
Cheers,
Linda
I have waited a week to report this but download a page is taking 2-3 times longer than it did in version 2. Downloading the ads is also taking much longer. That may be because the ads are animated.
Why is this?
Linda
This is one of the downsides to Vbulletin3 unfortunately. I've noticed for a long time that every site that runs version3 takes appreciably longer to render the page than the version2 sites. I don't think it has anything at all to do with the ads.
Then this could be a hinderance in attracting new registered members. I think that this is an issue that Jupiter needs to discuss with the VBulletin developers. It sounds like this is caused by inefficient code.
Just a thought.
Linda
But as virtually every other major forum is running identical software, with the same long rendering times we aren't at a particular disadvantage. I agree that it's probably something that the Vbulletin developers ought to look at, but I don't expect that we could get them to do anything specially for VDr or even for Jupitermedia.
Thanks to Joe, Big John and the Mod's for listening to the members and changing the placement of the ads. Its a big improvement.
1 of the things we may explore is storing the CSS code in a file, rather than in the database, which would allow browser caching of that file. That would go a small way toward speeding load time.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by LindaHewitt
Here's a good example http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=172042
I had no memory of where the above thread was or when.
I knew it was called Spark Causes System Shutdown.
I first tried a basic search using Spark - the first thread listed was from 2002 and still is even though I've posted a response today that has the word spark in it.
I then went to Advance Search and used Spark as the key word and Nix as the author across all forums and any date - result: nothing, nada, nix.
Then tried Spark Causes System Shutdown for the keywords and Nix as the author searching heading only then entire body - result: zilch, zero, zip. (although this search now finds this thread which I have just posted to today http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=184599)
I ended up having to search for all posts started by me which luckily is only 295 and search back through them chronologically.
Now does everyone understand why I might need to have more than 500 when I'm searching for posts by me on any thread ?
EDIT: This thread that I'm posting this response in also comes up in the results for spark system but spark on it's own still shows 2002 as the first apparent thread ??
Using the forum search engine using key word:
"newegg", comes up w/ nothing;
"wireless", one thread only, posted today;
"nforce", nothing;
"directron", nothing;
"irfanview", only 11 threads;
"photoshop"; only 17 old threads from 1998 to 2000.
BTW, the 4 characters minimum is a pain ... I thought the old 3 characters minimum was bad.
A search using help causes proffered this response
Quote:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : help, causes
Virus - 465 results with the first being in August 2002 ?
Hijack ThisNAV* - 1 hit for today and then Feb 2000Quote:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : this]
vdr* - zero matches
So it would appear that Virtual Dr Search Appears A Little Sick
Key Word "hijack" comes up w/ this very thread!
There seems to be quite a few problem w/ the search engine. I think one of the problems is that it doesn't search the topics ... a mod needs to confirm this.
"ghost" gives only 48 results w/ the latest one dates back 2000!!!
Just did a basic search for Blue Screen which got me 165 results from 2000 and below and all in Windows95 forum ???
The latest for "fdisk", "partition", is also 2000.
"nero": 3 threads.
"*mp3": 11 threads (latest thread 2000)
"msconfig": 18 threads (latest thread 2000)
"adaware": 0
Hmm basic search for spark now only gets me 3 threads 2 I posted in today and 1 in 1999, earlier ti was giving me a few pages from 2002 and below.
I think the index is queued from a far
"memory" gives 2 for today; 1 for yestyerday and than jumps to 2000 and older.
Hey, this searchinbg game quickly becomes addictive. :D
I'm now trying to think of something extremely common to seearch on.
May be the 2001 - 2004 threads are still being archived by the site? May be.