I know you guys are all talking about formatting in posts, but most of the time I can't even load the forum at all, using FF 6.01. (or any other browser) Is anyone else experiencing sporadic failures of the forum to load? I know I am in a 3rd world country, but I can surf any website on the planet - except the Cakewalk form - which only happens to be everyone's primary source of news about Sonar. When I asked CW support about this, they suggested I upgrade my Java, which after reading earlier posts here about how out of date CW's forum software is, was pretty funny. Surely someone at CW must appreciate that roughly one quarter of all forum users do so with Firefox?? Or is the problem not with Cakewalk, but rather the people who host this forum? CAKEWALK - PLEASE FIX THIS ISSUE!

Hi Plazma ... after reading your thread I suddenly remembered Java. I completely forgot it even existed.

I went and updated it and the forums have almost zero delay now. My ISP is very mercurial so I do know if it's coincidence or what ... but I've been surfing the forums off and on for a couple of hours now and not one slow down.

Can't hurt to try and upgrade it.

I've also heard (from Brandon, I think) that Cake's trying to address the forum software problems.  Here at my project studio I recently upgraded to IE9.  It no likee the forum either...at least for me.  Posting is a toss-up as to whether it actually gets posted...lots of times I can't even load the forum...etc......

the problem with using older browsers (eg, ff5) is that you miss the later security updates

pwal


the problem with using older browsers (eg, ff5) is that you miss the later security updates

Sure, but some of those security updates are minor - or don't apply on this forum (or may apply seriously).

But regardless, if something isn't working right (here), what's a forumite to do

But, if anyone thinks that hackers aren't far above the security updates to FF or any other software, just keep in mind how easy it was/is for hackers to get confidential government data; credit card data, etc.

And keep in mind that Google, MS and a myriad of other companies regularly collect our data with or without our knowing or agreeing.

So if anyone is *REALLY* worried about security, I would suggest staying off the internet and not using your smartphone

Bub


I'm just curious ... what kind of web sites are you guys visiting that makes you worry about security so much?

I've been to the depths of the internet and back and I've never had a virus I got off the net, never had my PC hijacked...

Well, Bub, I've never had those kinds of problems either.  I suppose I might be overly cautious, but I still do everything I can to be safe with the investment in my computer.  I'd rather take the time to be cautious than end up sorry that I didn't.  When we say "never had a problem!"-- we need to be sure and knock on wood!


Randy B.

this is the only forum that's not working in ff6, that i've come across - to downgrade just for this seems wrong (as does reinstalling an OS to get an application working) ymmv

pwal


the problem with using older browsers (eg, ff5) is that you miss the later security updates

Why do they update major version just for security updates - it really has gone inflation in major versions on ff.

I ran on 3.6 this spring, then came 4.0, then came 5.0, then came 6.0 in the matter of two/three month.

Are they envious of MSIE which is v9?

  Chrome doesn't even give me a reply option. What is up with that? Tom