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Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 3:01 PM Mozilla? Aw, in my head, that's the same thing as Netscape Navigator. ;-) Kevin -- actually, this doesn't sound like what you are describing, but I thought I should mention it anyway... I've said that "new" messages are messages that were posted since your last visit, and everything else is "old". Well, the more technically minded of you may have wondered, what constitues a "visit"? As you may have discovered, if you log out and then log back in, that counts as a new "visit". But what if you never log out? And what if you checked "remember my login and password" so that you never have to login? A: There is a one-hour timeout. If you don't click on any forum links for one hour, you will automatically be "logged out". If you didn't select "remember login", this effect is obvious, because the next time you hit refresh or click something, your name will disappear from the top-right hand corner of the page; and, in order to post, you must log back in. If you did select "remember login", when you come back to your computer after an hour or more, you are still "logged out", but the instant you click something or hit "refresh", you are automatically logged back in. This updates your "last login" time and marks threads that haven't changed since you walked away from the computer as "old" -- even though, in some sense, you never left. Anyway, as I was waking up this morning, it struck me that one might see an effect similar to what Kevin describes if they were clicking links on a stale copy of the main page -- i.e., one that your browser loaded over an hour ago. But that doesn't sound like the bug Kevin is seeing :-( | |