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Is it me or are we running veerryyy slooowwww tonight?

I hate having the board infront of me for 60 seconds before the next page loads. This just highlights the mistake I just made.
Normally the pain from an error doesn't hit you until the board comes round again. But with a slow site the pain in twofold.

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Originally posted by invigorate
Is it me or are we running veerryyy slooowwww tonight?
It's been reported elsewhere with the solution to clear your browser cache. Those doing this have said it got faster again.

Example: http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33960&page=1

[ThreadID]33960[/ThreadID]

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Working fine for me. 99% of the time when someone posts about how slow the site is the problem is on their end.

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Originally posted by rhb
It's been reported elsewhere with the solution to clear your browser cache. Those doing this have said it got faster again.
Thanks rhb,

I'm an IT idiot. I use firefox. How do I clear my cache?

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Tools>Options>Privacy>Cache

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Originally posted by Peakite
Tools>Options>Privacy>Cache
thank you everyone!

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Originally posted by invigorate
Thanks rhb,

I'm an IT idiot. I use firefox. How do I clear my cache?
Tools > options > privacy > cache > clear

🙂

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Originally posted by invigorate
Is it me or are we running veerryyy slooowwww tonight?

I hate having the board infront of me for 60 seconds before the next page loads. This just highlights the mistake I just made.
Normally the pain from an error doesn't hit you until the board comes round again. But with a slow site the pain in twofold.
It's more than likely to be either;

~ Your ISP and it's depressingly poor contention ratios and laughable quality cable/telephone lines - darn PPPoA rubish!

~ Everyone outside of the UK waking up and going online causing server lag and site congestion - whinge at and poke Russ until he buys bigger better servers

Either way it's sh!t creek without a paddle teritory, so put up and shut up!

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Originally posted by rhb
Tools > options > privacy > cache > clear

🙂
Is that the same as deleting your temporary internet files on Internet Explorer?

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Originally posted by helden
Is that the same as deleting your temporary internet files on Internet Explorer?
Yeah, with IE

Go to Tools... get an illegal operation error message
Go to Tools again then Internet Options
Allow windows to lag and freeze for trying such a complex procedure
Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze system and stop forced restart
Repeat steps 1 and 2 again
Click 'Delete Files'
Wait 3 minutes and then get fed up of IE doing absolutely nothing
Hit Ctrl Alt Delete again, quit IE and restart it
Follow steps 1, 2, 3, 6
Wait only 2 miuntes this time....

And it's done!

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Yeah, with IE

Go to Tools... get an illegal operation error message
Go to Tools again then Internet Options
Allow windows to lag and freeze for trying such a complex procedure
Ctrl Alt Delete to unfreeze system and stop forced restart
Repeat steps 1 and 2 again
Click 'Delete Files'
Wait 3 minutes and then get fed up of IE doing absolutely nothi ...[text shortened]... IE and restart it
Follow steps 1, 2, 3, 6
Wait only 2 miuntes this time....

And it's done!
Thanks but did all these things and it went very smoothly no problems at all.

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Originally posted by helden
Thanks but did all these things and it went very smoothly no problems at all.
Bill Gates must have a thing for you 😉

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Bill Gates must have a thing for you 😉
Have you got broadband? I have but when I had dial up screen used to freeze all the time, no problems now.

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Originally posted by helden
Have you got broadband? I have but when I had dial up screen used to freeze all the time, no problems now.
Supposedly but that's an arguement between me and my ISP that's far to long and boring to go into!

IE used to give me no end of problems, so I switched to Firefox and everythings fine now!

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Ok - since I posted last night.

Home via broadband and Firefox = slow. Cache clear made no difference.

Work cybercafe via broadband and IE5 = slow.

Not signifcantly slow performance, but slower than 'normal'.

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