Geocaching.com website issue

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:52 pm

I've been logging into geocaching.com for the past week and on occasion, depending on the page, I get an error saying something like it can't load the website and I get rediredcted to an explorer page for diagnosis. I hit the back button and sometimes it loads the page and sometimes it does not. It happens on various screens on the website, including the main page, when I click "caches (filter finds)", queries....there really isn't a method to the madness just that it happens when I'm on the geocaching website and on no other website.

Can anyone enlighten me to what is causing it? It is not specific to my laptop either, any computer that I'm on it has happened on.

Thanks,
B.Q.

WGA Member Joined: 2003-12-21 Posts: 250

here I thought it was my puter now I know it was yours all this time

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:57 am

I log onto GC several times a day, and have not experienced this.

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:09 am

marc_54140 wrote:

I log onto GC several times a day, and have not experienced this.

Marc are you a Mac user?

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:38 am

I think Marc uses Mac. I do, and I'm not having any problems.

Is this what you're having?

http://www.wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10600

About the fourth post down the talk is of problems with Internet Explorer.

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:47 am

I'm using Firefox 3.6 on a PC with Windows 7 and I have not seen this type of behavior either. Perhaps it's an Internet Explorer specific thing.

Shane

WGA Member Joined: 2009-04-26 Posts: 38

Son of a gun... I thought I was the only one with this problem. Happens on my work computer and my laptop at home. Both are running Vista and Windows exploder 7. I haven't heard anything good about Exploder 8 or I would have upgraded to it. Started happening when Groundspeak did the last update. Crying or Very sad

Dawn

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:40 pm

Haven't had this problem either BQ, but I run a rather unusual computer setup Kubuntu operating system and use Google Chrome for my web browser. My educated guess would be something with IE, you should try Firefox and see if that solves your problem.

Rob

WGA Member Joined: 2009-04-26 Posts: 38

Updated exploder to 8, and it seems to have fixed the problem.
Dawn

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:58 pm

I use a iMAC running Safari.

I also open a Windows environment on the iMAC, and run Opera in that.

Neither ones causes a problem.

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:06 am

I've experience that sort of thing ... on any website that I'm doing more than just casual viewing of pages ... for about a month now. It's logical if you sit down to the GC website and keep hitting it with log entries it will appear to be that website. It's likely a wider spread problem for you, you just don't know it.

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:29 pm

I to had the same problems with error messages. I ran IE with windows 7.
I down loaded the latest version of FireFox, and have no more problems.
FireFox is a great browser and really like it.

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:10 pm

benny7210 wrote:

FireFox is a great browser and really like it.

Amen.