My Firefox is developing Alzheimers?

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:41 pm

Often Firefox forgets that I read a topic, and that makes it difficult to see which topics I've visited during a session.
I have to mark a forum as read, even though I read it.

Very frustrating!

Searching for '+firefox +phpbb +session +topic +read' is like searching for trouble.

How do I fix it?

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:42 pm

My Firefox just noticed that I've posted a new topic, so it showed up as a new topic.
How awesome is that?

Post by **xavier** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:08 pm

This isn't Firefox, it's phpBB2 -- that's all server-side code, that determines which icons to use.

Post by **haffax** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:23 pm

Do you use the new post icon to get to the post, or do you use the latest post icon?
Using the new post icon works reliably (at least in this regard) using the latest post icon doesn't.

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:35 pm

It doesn't seem to work with neither icon.

Well, sometimes it does. So it's random.

I will and restart Firefox, this time without restoring previous browsing session.

Funny thing is that it seems to work alright on IE7.

So maybe a Firefox thing? Or a Firefox related PhpBB2 bug?

Annoying none the less.

Post by **jacmoe** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:14 am

It happens when I browse the net with multiple tabs open..

Klaim · Post by **Klaim** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:20 am

I had the problem few months ago and reported on this forum.

Try to delete all your cookies and history, then quit firefox and restart it?

Post by **sinbad** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:35 pm

This is all cookie based. phpBB2 does not store anything on the server about what you've read and what you haven't, it just uses a timestamped cookie and a date/time comparison to figure it out.

The first thing I always do is to open the 'posts since last visit', flip through all the pages and then work backwards through the cached pages.

phpBB3 supports proper server-side 'read' flags but I still haven't gotten around to that. The theming thread died before reacing a finished version and I haven't had time to investigate it, especially since the conversion process took multiple hours last time I tested it.