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I'm having serious trouble accessing the DBB using mozilla. Every time I try to load it in mozilla it simply tries to download the index file, instead of displaying it. It didn't do this before, and it just started happening a couple days ago, but IE can still access it fine. What's up? I really don't want to open IE to browse around here...
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clear your mozilla cache
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Post by lars »

I am using FireFox 1.0.7, with no problems.
So it is a local problem on your computer. Don't know what you can do about it though.
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roid wrote:clear your mozilla cache
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lars wrote:I am using FireFox 1.0.7, with no problems.
So it is a local problem on your computer. Don't know what you can do about it though.
I had the same thing happen multiple times on Thursday from my work computer... using IE on XP. It has since stopped.
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Just stopped, I can access it fine with Mozilla now.
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Post by Unix »

I had the same problems in IE and Mozilla. After clearing the cache I still had the same problem. My laptop stopped doing it two days before my main box did. Weird.
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Post by MD-2389 »

I've seen this happen to. Its a server side issue. The host has been screwing around with php. This is probably why the DBB was down most of the day yesterday.
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Is this still an issue?
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Post by will_kill »

So what does it mean when I try to join a game thru Mozilla via the tracker page (by clicking the bat file launch button) and it only gives me the option to "save to disk"? however when I open the same page with IE it lets me right in....
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Oddly enough, it used to happen consistently to me on Windows/FF 1.0.6, but never on FreeBSD/FF 1.0.7. And I would dual-boot between them constatntly, so I'm talking 20-second differences.
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Post by MD-2389 »

KoolBear wrote:Is this still an issue?
Its only an issue when the idiots running the server mess around with the php scripting install.
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Which they seem to be doing every other night, given the 500 errors and screwed-up MIME types.
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DC, you might want to be careful at the bashing, it appears that the DBB is pointed to hideout server ;)
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Post by Krom »

If the host was actually paying attention I don't think the BB would be down as much as it is, because the host wouldn't be able to view it either. :P
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