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Suddenly the address in the browser does not change from http://audiomastersforum.net/, no matter what post I open. This is very inconvenient. Since things continue to work normally everywhere except AudioMasters, I have to believe it is a change in something local to the forum. I sure hope it isn't permanent.

I see this deficiency is only in effect if I am not signed on. This is rather inconvenient but not catastrophic. If I give a thread address to someone who is not a member, will it work to let them view that thread?

It behaves normally here, whether I'm logged in or not.

Not here. This is new, starting today.
Also new, starting today (or was it last night), after I complained about a new, bizarre behavior of the log-in screen at the Adobe forum, I stopped getting the log-in screen when going to the Adobe forum. Is that another me-only thing?

Also new, starting today (or was it last night), after I complained about a new, bizarre behavior of the log-in screen at the Adobe forum, I stopped getting the log-in screen when going to the Adobe forum. Is that another me-only thing?

I read that - and I have to say that I haven't noticed any change in behaviour of that forum either, although I don't bother with the log in/log out procedure, and just leave it up to the cookie to sort out.

As far as this forum is concerned, you might try deleting the cookie, and re-establishing your login from scratch. Faulty cookies can cause all sorts of strange anomalies - I had a problem with this the other week (not the same as yours), but deleting and re-establishing fixed it completely.

All cookies are gone every time I exit the browser, which is often. Always has been that way.

I'm getting the same thing as AndyH...I wanted to give somebody a link to the Stringline Mix Primer thread earlier, but the address bar never gets beyond http://audiomastersforum.net/ even when viewing an actual thread.

In my case, there's no change to the login behaviour of my PC.  Cookies are enabled, as is the auto login function which works fine.  Indeed, I've tried this with both Firefox and IE on two separate computers.

Bob

In Firefox, at present this thread's URL is reported as
http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?p=56082

...which looks pretty normal to me. The only time you ever get the reported behaviour that I'm aware of is when information changes within a subframe - the main frame retains the root address, but not the subframe details. But as far as I'm aware, the forum doesn't behave like this. Well, it certainly doesn't for me, anyway.

I can replicate this behavior when I use IE instead of Firefox.  It does indeed look as if it's using some sort of "frame" or forwarding function.  The forum title (in the browser) is incorrect also....stating "audiomastersforum.net".  Which is NOT what it should be.

The forum title (in the browser) is incorrect also....stating "amforum.net".  Which is NOT what it should be.

Here, using Firefox on a WinME machine, the title is "AM Forums - Mozilla Firefox" - which is correct. I only mentioned ME in passing, because it has no Windows maintenance, which is the other thing that we should try to eliminate as being in any way relevant...

And if the pages don't display as frames on this machine, then I don't think that they are being sent as frames - browsers shouldn't be able to alter what happens as far as displaying these is concerned - unless MS can alter something devious in XP, or whatever. I'll try the forum on the other machine and see what happens there.

In IE here it is certainly using frames, confirmed by "viewing the source".  I have an email out to support to see what they say.  It is strange that this was never mentioned before the recent outage, which leads me to believe that some setting has been changed.

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In IE here it is certainly using frames, confirmed by "viewing the source".  I have an email out to support to see what they say.  It is strange that this was never mentioned before the recent outage, which leads me to believe that some setting has been changed.

This is in IE on the ME machine - no frames. Because I've quoted your reply, this page is http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/posting.php?mode=quote&p=56090 (don't click on it!). And the headings are correct as well.

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But this is in IE on the laptop - here the page URL comes out as
http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?p=56092&sid=3f646ba1cccd9fd8af062cef9ff42e2f#56092 and that's a bit weird, I think. I don't have Firefox on here, so I can't try that.

*edit* second time around editing this post I get
http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?p=56093#56093 and that's about correct, because it relates to the post number, rather than the thread. And this is a machine with all of the MS updates installed, so that's that theory out of the window.

For whatever it's worth:  (using Mozilla 1.5)

I arrived at this page via the Index page, where I clicked on View Unread Posts.

In my list of unread posts is the topic for this page.  When I hover over this topic title in the list of unread posts, the address for this page is:

http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?t=5594&highlight=

When I click on the topic title in the list of unread posts, this page comes up, with the following address:

http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?t=5594&highlight=

On this page above,  SteveG's posted dated 9-1-06 gives the address for this page as:

http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?p=56082

Note that there is no "&highlight="  appended onto the end of that address.

When I hover over that link in SteveG's post, I get the address I posted just above.  

When I click on the link in SteveG's post, I also get this page, with the following address, again with no "&highlight=" appended onto the end of the address:

http://audiomastersforum.net/amforum/viewtopic.php?p=56082

Two different addresses lead to the same page.

Two different addresses lead to the same page.

I think that this is just the difference between the post count (high number) and the thread count (lower number), and that for you, like me, everything is fine. Each post gets its own number - that's how you can jump to the last post in a thread.

So it's not a UK vs USA bug either!