Facebook and IE8

[Big Black Stilo]

when using Facebook on IE8, sometimes it hangs and wont load the page, and the blue circle continually spins in the tab.

i can leave it like this all day without timing out.


everytime it does this i have noticed facebook has inserted a #! in the url.

for example, the URL that works is http://www.facebook.com/XXXXXX (XXXXXX being the rest of the real URL), but facebook puts http://facebook.com/#!/XXXXXX and this is when the page doesnt load and it just hangs until i click in the address bar and delete the #, the ! and a /.

also noticed when just on the feed which should be http://www.facebook.com (when logged in) if http://www.facbook.com/#! is in the address bar, it stops the feed updating with other peoples new status.

what is going on with this and how do i get around it?

 

[Big Black Stilo]

by the way the URLS above arent real, just FF automatically makes them linkys

 

[Stu DemonD]

Before anyone posts saying IE is for noobs, blah blah yawn blah, have you tried updating to IE9 - I can't recall having any FB issues.

PS to all those haters, I also use Chrome but still prefer IE Any arguments about using IE, linux, Mac, abacus will just be wasted because I don't give a monkeys what you think

 

[Eklipze3k]

That URL issue is something I've noticed in the past, not just on IE but also Firefox. Manually editing the URL is the only workaround AFAIK.

 

[fingers99]

Before anyone posts saying IE is for noobs, blah blah yawn blah, have you tried updating to IE9 - I can't recall having any FB issues.

PS to all those haters, I also use Chrome but still prefer IE Any arguments about using IE, linux, Mac, abacus will just be wasted because I don't give a monkeys what you think

Time of the month?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Time of the month?

No

 

[ChrisUK]

I must admit I agree. Most of the browser issues reported to me are because they've installed Firefox or chrome.

 

[Magic Johnson]

Browsers are a farce. When are they going to be standardised? Makes webdev a nightmare.

 

[Big Black Stilo]

bring back netscape!

back to the thread... so its not a gammy setting on my computer then?

 

[fingers99]

I think the consensus is that it happens to everyone, some of the time.

I don't use it, so.............