Strange internet behaviour

Here's an odd one..lost internet connection last night, phoned my ISP (oh, deep joy..) They eventually traced a fault to the local network.
 
Powered up the router this morning however, and the green internet light came on. Tried Firefox, but still said 'no internet connection'
 
ISP texted me to say they had done checks and now no fault on the local network.
 
Tried Internet Explorer, and got online.
 
Tried Firefox again, got online this time.
 
Here's the weird thing though, if I go to certain bookmarked sites, I still get the 'no internet connection' message coming up.
 
Should I do a reset or reinstall Firefox maybe?

jamesg1213
Here's an odd one..lost internet connection last night, phoned my ISP (oh, deep joy..) They eventually traced a fault to the local network.
 
Powered up the router this morning however, and the green internet light came on. Tried Firefox, but still said 'no internet connection'
 
ISP texted me to say they had done checks and now no fault on the local network.
 
Tried Internet Explorer, and got online.
 
Tried Firefox again, got online this time.
 
Here's the weird thing though, if I go to certain bookmarked sites, I still get the 'no internet connection' message coming up.
 
Should I do a reset or reinstall Firefox maybe?

That is strange. Usually, a "no internet connection" error is due to the obvious and not when the rest of the net works. Of course, at work, I get this message (possibly because some sites may have been blocked by the AV proramme) whereas the rest of the net works fine. I've never experienced this at home though. 
 
If you haven't tried this already, try googling those bookmarked sites that are blocked and see if you can access them that way. Maybe the bookmark links are broken? (just guessing here).....

I had two sites open when the 'net connection went down, one was the BBC iPlayer, the other was BBC weather forecast for the area I live in. If I try and get to either of those, I get the 'no internet connection' error, but any other part of the websites work fine, as does any other site I visit.
 
I can access any other show on the BBC iPlayer except the one I was watching when the connection broke..and I can get to any other area on the weather map except this one..it's almost like the broken connection left a 'scratch' on those sites.

Mesh
Yeah, that is really strange......
 
Mebee, the BBC is trying to tell you not to listen to their music sation as bad weather is on it's way?

But, even if the servers crashed, James can still get into other parts of that site (if I understood that correctly). Generally, won't the whole website be down if the server had crashed?

Just to demonstrate..
 
I go on the BBC Weather site and type in an area just south of me;
 

 
No problem.  Then I change the location to the one I had open last night;
 

..and get this;
 

 
 
 
 

 
NagBap werking again?

Ya, Thanks. Here is another thing to do though (sometimes not so bad, sometimes I wonder where it all came from).
 
Right click on Computer and "Open" it on the menu items. Right click on your "C:\" drive and and select "Properties".
 
When the "General" tab screen comes up, click on "Disk Cleanup"!
 
The other day I had to re-install IE so when going to Windows Update it wanted to upgrade it to IE 10 instead of having IE9. (if it wasn't needed for some Fender Amp program I would have left it un-installed!)
 
But anyway, I had downloaded something like 52mB, or not all that much, later I went back and thought I do the "Disk Cleanup" and for some reason (I really have not figured this out yet) I had 326mB of Window Update Temp files like that are not needed on the hard disk. Just delete the main checkboxes it has checked there and you may find a lot of files not needed anymore on your C:\ partition of your harddisk!
(might give it a day or so before you do it after a Windows Update or any Temp files left by browsers or something like that)
 
I have no idea where all those files came from.
??
I scratch my head at Windows 7 as I find out more about it. It is like a pack rat and stores stuff and don't delete it until you find out about it.
 
Revo Installer 2.5 9 free version does not even find all that stuff, yet it finds other stuff left on the computer from Windows 7 *.dmp files (dump files) or whatever browsers are keeping on the computer.
 
I just delete History in any browser every day anymore.
??
Of course what anyone does is up to them.
 
More like strange computer behavior!
(and also programs may not completely un-install theirselves, which Revo may find perhaps).
They leave all this crap and stuff on your computer sometimes.
Bad programs, bad computer, bad, bad, bad (in my opinion).
 

For most browsers, Ctrl+F5 (or Shift+F5) forces a page to reload without checking its cache.