[X] My Assistant

[dvandorn]

I had been noticing that while it has been working just fine for every other website I visit, Internet Explorer was really bogging down on any Invision Board site -- most specifically, UMSF. It was taking a good 30 seconds to move from one page to another. I'm certain it's an issue with IE on my own machine, since I can access UMSF nice and fast on other machines.

So, when I went out to download the latest Google Earth update (complete with 3D Mars!), I found the GE update link also included an option to dl Google Chrome. So, I downloaded it.

This thing just rips through UMSF! Very fast page-turns. Looks just fine and nothing I've run across here yet has failed to load.

So, while I still use IE for most of my browsing, I'm now using Google Chrome exclusively for UMSF.

Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience?

-the other Doug

[maschnitz]

Ah, think I got it. It's the "autocorrect DST" setting, under "Control Panel" > "Board Settings". If I turn it on with FF17, it'll do the infinite redirect. If I turn it off, it stops.

I noticed because the hours kept ticking over - 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 ... .

In Firebug, you can see the full page HTML AND the 302 HTTP code, which is very odd. 302 redirect pages are typically much smaller than the full index page. If I had to guess, I'd say FF17 has changed how it's caching HTTP status codes on keep-alive connections. IP.Board is cracking open a semi-permanent AJAX open connection, presumably to handle live updates to threads. That 302 must be "sticking".

Someone will fix this, somewhere between Mozilla and IP.Board. It's just a question of when. I'd try to repeat it if you can, then keep an eye on it. This'll make a mess if FF17 gets to release and it's still there. (Worst case - force that "autocorrect DST" flag off for everyone.)

[MahFL]

I am on FF17 and still have the problem.