IE9 here.  EVERY time I post to this forum it locks up and I have to kill it with Task Manager and open a new session to check if my post made it.  I don't have this with ANY OHER forum I frequent.  Ergo, this issue is here not with browser software.

Face it, this forum SUCKS. We shouldn't have to perform browser voodoo to use a simple *forum*. It's a forum. It's not rocket-surgery. Even if it works perfectly, it still sucks because of all the annoying drop-downs and the disappearing search bar. I use Firefox because it suppresses tooltips, a must with Facebook. I should not have to use a separate browser for this forum. I am only here because I have issues with X2, so a broken forum just makes it more annoying.

I've never once had a problem using either IE or Crazy Browser since this forum came about. No matter what machine or OS I used, it's always been fine for me other than when the board itself seems to go on the blink and we can't even connect to it for a minute or so. Thankfully, that never seems to happen to me when I post a message. But there are times when I click on the forum link in favorites to get here...and it says "Waiting for a response". Other than that, never a problem.

That Crazy Browser is pretty cool for those that may like IE yet hate how it works. It's like a super charged version of IE in my opinion complete with a kill flash button if need be. www.crazybrowser.com

It's free and is really small at under 800 kb. A nice alternative that I've been using for years. :) Sorry to hear there are people really having issues with this. :(

-Danny

Thanks Everybody...

From the info I see here it appears that I can upgrade to FF 15 and use IE Tab and I should be fine...

To respond to a few of the messages:

I don't care for Chrome...

I've not been able to install two versions of FF simultaneously here... I must be doing something wrong as this would be the best option for me...

Now to discover if FF 15 will install on this old win2k machine I use for web-work! ;-)

I hope to be messaging here again later... ;-) (not graphic smileys work fine for me)

Thanks Again To Everyone for chiming in to help... I'll bet that right after I finish updating all the machines, Cakewalk will update the forum! ;-)

Keni

NukleoN


Face it, this forum SUCKS. We shouldn't have to perform browser voodoo to use a simple *forum*. It's a forum. It's not rocket-surgery. Even if it works perfectly, it still sucks because of all the annoying drop-downs and the disappearing search bar. I use Firefox because it suppresses tooltips, a must with Facebook. I should not have to use a separate browser for this forum. I am only here because I have issues with X2, so a broken forum just makes it more annoying.

I think it's a bit heavy handed to say that... the forum itself is excellent and allows us to communicate withe each other and Cakewalk quite well... The problem being with the forum software needing update or replacement... In such a size company as this it can be more difficult than others and tho I would love to see this happen, I'd much rather The Bakers be working on Sonar! ;-)
 
BTW... This is my first message using FF 15.0.1 and IETab V2 (4.x.x.x.x) and it seems to be working fine so far... Quote appeared and I'm working as usual... We'll see if/how it posts! ;-)
 
Oh and If you hadn't guessed.... It will not install on win2k as it requires a minimum of XP SP2
 
Thanks!
Keni
 

Bristol_Jonesey

Bub

bapu

Use Chrome for this forum.

Simples.

I tried it, it doesn't work.

Not so Simples after all.

Erm, yes it does. What do you think I'm using right now?

It does paragraphs.
And text effects

It doesn't work on every system ... it doesn't work on mine ... and if you read the forums, there's plenty of posts stating Chrome does not work on other people's systems besides mine ...

I've never seen one post stating Fire Fox 3.6 doesn't work ...

It's not a big deal ...

If ya can't read the forums and determine that there is a very simple solution ... then by all means, keep on asking. It's a free and open forum.

 Keni, I'm not talking about how the forum is used so much as how the forum functions. It's bloody awful. I've been around since before the Internet and I've used a lot of forums, and this one of the worst ones I've ever seen. I also say that as a long-time Cakewalk user. I'm not here to troll, just to give my honest feedback. If I have to use a different browser just to use a forum, then the forum is clearly broken. A company of this size should have the best forum possible, not some broken junk that adds more broken to their broken X2 software. I'm so annoyed by X2 that I am actively searching to replace it with the competition, right now. Almost everything I use in X2 breaks in some way. X2 has gotten bloated and buggy and this forum is just more fail (not the people, the forum). I would be embarrassed to have a forum like this if I were running Cakewalk. If there's no line-breaks, that's just more forum fail for you.

  Win2K? It's 2012 man! I have a beastly 64-bit Windows 7 machine. ;) 24-cores, 48GB RAM dual Xeon, etc. Now you're really making me think this forum is the place that time forgot. No line breaks, sorry (forum's fault).

NukleoN


 Keni, I'm not talking about how the forum is used so much as how the forum functions. It's bloody awful. I've been around since before the Internet and I've used a lot of forums, and this one of the worst ones I've ever seen. I also say that as a long-time Cakewalk user. I'm not here to troll, just to give my honest feedback. If I have to use a different browser just to use a forum, then the forum is clearly broken. A company of this size should have the best forum possible, not some broken junk that adds more broken to their broken X2 software. I'm so annoyed by X2 that I am actively searching to replace it with the competition, right now. Almost everything I use in X2 breaks in some way. X2 has gotten bloated and buggy and this forum is just more fail (not the people, the forum). I would be embarrassed to have a forum like this if I were running Cakewalk. If there's no line-breaks, that's just more forum fail for you.

Hyperbole much?....

If Chrome privacy issues are a concern try SR Ware Iron.  It is based on Chrome but does no reporting.  It even defaults to Duckduckgo as search engine since google gathers so much info.  I detect no difference between it and chrome and I find it to be faster than Chrome or firefox.