Problems loading a specific page

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bethel41

Discussion Starter · Sep 21, 2005

I'm having problems loading one particular webpage-- http://www.falloutboyrock.com .

I use it nearly every day, and have never had a problem. Yesterday, it worked in the morning but when I got home from work wouldn't load the top half of the page. I have XP and use Firefox as my browser. This is what it looks like right now for me:

I've tried the site on another computer, also using Firefox and XP and it worked fine so I think the issue must be in my settings or something. I'm not sure what could have changed but something must have since it's not working.

I attempted to do a bit of troubleshooting based on what I could find on google. I checked and updated Java, and that didn't make a difference. I also uninstalled and re-installed Flash. Yet again, it didn't work.

Any ideas? The top part of the page is needed to nagivate the rest of the site so it's pretty annoying that it doesn't work.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help!

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martt

· #2 · Sep 21, 2005

Since that part of the page is a Flash presentation that would be what to look into. Have perhaps you blocked Flash?

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bethel41

Discussion Starter · #3 · Sep 21, 2005

martt said:
Since that part of the page is a Flash presentation that would be what to look into. Have perhaps you blocked Flash?

How would I knkow if I had done that?

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martt

· #4 · Sep 21, 2005

I haven't used Adblock for a good while but I read that is capable of blocking Flash. If that is installed, try disabling it. There is the Flashblock extension too but I guess you know if you'd blocked anything using that.

Perhaps try going to another site that definitely uses Flash to see if the browser plugin in is working. This one for instance:

http://www.flasharcade.com/

If the games there don't work either then perhaps reinstall the Flash Player.

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koala

· #5 · Sep 21, 2005

Go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ to install the browser plugins and test the Flash player.

Have you checked Firefox Options > Web Features and your firewall to see if they are blocking javascripts?

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bethel41

Discussion Starter · #6 · Sep 21, 2005

martt said:
I haven't used Adblock for a good while but I read that is capable of blocking Flash. If that is installed, try disabling it. There is the Flashblock extension too but I guess you know if you'd blocked anything using that.

Perhaps try going to another site that definitely uses Flash to see if the browser plugin in is working. This one for instance:

http://www.flasharcade.com/

If the games there don't work either then perhaps reinstall the Flash Player.

The games work, and I don't have adblock.

koala said:
Go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ to install the browser plugins and test the Flash player.

Have you checked Firefox Options > Web Features and your firewall to see if they are blocking javascripts?

Flash player works fine on that site. I checked and I'm not blocking javascripts.

:4-dontkno

Is there any kind of dll that could have been deleted by an antivirus program or something? I honestly don't really know what dll's do, but I do know that on my old computer some were deleted at some point in time and it screwed things up.

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martt

· #7 · Sep 22, 2005

bethel41 said:
Is there any kind of dll that could have been deleted by an antivirus program or something?

If it's just this one site giving trouble I wouldn't think so. Clearing the cache might be worth a try.

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bethel41

Discussion Starter · #8 · Sep 22, 2005

martt said:
If it's just this one site giving trouble I wouldn't think so. Clearing the cache might be worth a try.

THANK YOU! That worked.

Figures, I try all that complicated stuff and it's something so simple. I'm a computer idiot

Thank you all so much for helping me out, I truly appreciate it :smile:

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koala

· #9 · Sep 22, 2005

If you keep having this problem, increase the cache size.

Scroll to the bottom of this link to see recommended cache sizes, depending on your connection type.
http://www.zoneforums.com/torrey/speedingfirefox.htm

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