Saturday, 8 August 2015

Re: Slashdot strangeness

In message <54e917b892bbailey@argonet.co.uk>
Brian <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <68c6ebe854.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>,
> Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> I've noticed many times recently that sometimes, when I double-click
>> the hotlist entry for Slashdot, the window opens, the throbber goes
>> round, but nothing arrives, nor does it time out. When this happens,
>> if I click stop, put the caret in the URL bar and press Return, the
>> page is fetched.
>
>> Does anyone else see the same symptoms? This is on an Iyonix, RO
>> 5.22, 512 MiB RAM, and with various recent CI versions (I check for
>> a new CI version daily) over at least 2 weeks.
>
>> I am aware that Slashdot has had some problems recently (hardware
>> failure), though I'd have thought they would be over by now.
>
>> I haven't noticed any other site show these symptoms. It doesn't
>> happen every time.
>
>> http://slashdot.org
>
>> Dave
>
>Yes, it does that here too. VRPC, RISC OS 4.02.

Just to bring this to a close, from my POV anyway...

I didn't want to raise a bug report until I had something more
substantial for the developers to work on - after all, the symptoms
could have been caused by a local problem. However, more recent
builds haven't exhibited the problem at all.

Dave

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