Fix for Internet Explorer users.

Banshee

I've been spending these days of carnival fixing several issues in this site that has been annoying me for some time. One of them is that Internet Explorer users were confused as mobile phone visitors and redirected to the ugly mobile version of PPM because their user agent had something in the end like "Creative AutoUpdate v1.40.01)". Nobody cares about this "Creative AutoUpdate", except that the word 'Update' has a 'pda' in the middle of it that confused our software.

In another unrelated note, we've also added some tips for those troubled users who have problems with our captcha system, after you fail to register 3 times. I've decided to not change the system itself to keep scaring the bots from this place. Anyway, I hope the tips in the end makes things more friendly for those who are interested to register here.

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Banshee wrote:

Fix for Internet Explorer users.
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http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ Very Happy

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

My condolences Banshee, for having to mess with that stupid browser and my respect for keeping support for this thing. Smile

Opera FTW. Very Happy

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

CCHyper wrote:

Banshee wrote:

Fix for Internet Explorer users.
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http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ Very Happy

The only correct choice. Y'all.

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Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

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Banshee · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:06 pm Post subject:

Yea, I know that internet explorer sucks and I don't use it to browse the web either (my main browser is firefox, followed closely by Opera). But... there are people and companies that still insists with this crap and visit PPM.

MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

Mozilla!

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Not for nothing Internet Explorer has the same initials as Internal Error. Wink

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Symphonic · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 06 Jan 2009

Anybody smart has been using Chrome for the last 3 or 4 years. :p

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Banshee · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, not everyone is that smart, when visiting any ppmsite.com section. According to webalizer, from the top 15 user agents visiting this site in this month, Firefox has over 99k hits, Chrome has 60k+ and Internet Explorer comes with 47k+. However, some of these visitors could be disguised bots.

According to the same webalizer, Google bot had 85k hits (less than Firefox), Baidu comes next with 76k, followed by Bing with 32k, Discovery Engine with 24k and yandex with 20k.

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

hey now, I'm a IE9 user and it works just fine. Maynot have the incentives as the other browsers, but I happen to like it. Probably most likely cause I've been using IE for over 14 yrs. I'm used to its layout and functionality. But I do use FireFox for certain things Very Happy

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EVA-251 · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

Just going to say that Internet Explorer 9 is a very solid browser. Problem IE9 has is the lack of add-ons.

But alas it suffers from the reputation of its predecessors. M4A3E8/76(W) was a solid tank but was marred by the suckiness of the originals. Nothing new.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject:

LKO said the truth. Obey.

Opera is innovative, all the rest just copies the good ideas.

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FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

Opera sucks. Chrome sucks. Safari sucks.

Use Firefox. I do like IE9 though. I won't lie. It's pretty damn solid.

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject:

Firefox lost my preference since 3.6, when it started to hang in memory during closure. I went to Opera and nowadays I can't imagine my life wthout Quick Dial.

'Nuff said.

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Opera still doesn't have shit on Firefox. #Tongue

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:25 pm Post subject:

You mean Firefox 11? #Tongue

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FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

Hey, hey. It's just version 10, goddammit. #Tongue

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Darkstorm · Commander **Joined**: 20 Jan 2008 **Location**: Texas

All non-IE browsers are about the same across the board. Each one has pros and cons. Looked this up a while back:

http://lifehacker.com/5884941/browser-speed-tests-chrome-17-firefox-10-internet-explorer-9-and-opera-1161

I'm using Chrome at the moment but I think I honestly prefer Firefox and will probably switch back sometime. Chrome just feels... slow when dealing bookmarks and I liked Firefox's separators.

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Darkstorm wrote:

All non-IE browsers are about the same across the board. Each one has pros and cons. Looked this up a while back:

http://lifehacker.com/5884941/browser-speed-tests-chrome-17-firefox-10-internet-explorer-9-and-opera-1161

I'm using Chrome at the moment but I think I honestly prefer Firefox and will probably switch back sometime. Chrome just feels... slow when dealing bookmarks and I liked Firefox's separators.

Via separators you mean folders?... Or what?

Starkku · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:39 pm Post subject:

Deformat wrote:

Via separators you mean folders?... Or what?

Separators are horizontal lines/gaps separating menu items, that is when talking about drop-down menus.

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Starkku wrote:

Deformat wrote:

Via separators you mean folders?... Or what?

Separators are horizontal lines/gaps separating menu items, that is when talking about drop-down menus.

Yes, horizontal lines that separate items. They're useful for sorting small amounts of bookmarks into categories without splitting them up into individual folders.

I usually like to keep a lot of bookmarks on the links bar so folders are a must but even then I'd get a network of folders so separators help with categorizing things without getting to complex. I already have too many folders, I don't need to get into three to four levels of folders.

I got a picture of my PPM folder in Firefox, which is already under a C&C folder as is.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Excuse me for going offtopic, but what's the skin you have there, Darkstorm?

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Darkstorm · Commander **Joined**: 20 Jan 2008 **Location**: Texas

It's called "FT SleekDark" in the Add-Ons Manager so that'd be my best guess.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Thanks man, this skin is awesome.

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Exley · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:55 am Post subject:

even if they kicked IE in arse and updated it with v9 to be semi-usable,
its still worst thing to use, reason is its getting updated every
2 years (lately)

which is terrible if you ask me...
no software, especially the one that holds biggest piece of usage share
should be neglected so long...

2 years is death

FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

I'd rather see a major version increase slowly than Mozilla's rapid release horseshit. Google did the same thing with Chrome and it was bullshit then too.

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