OT: Weird Internet Problem
- From: "Phyllis Steen" <taboo999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:20:41 GMT
I posted this on alt.computer and was advised to post here on the chance
that someone has heard of my problem.
I have a problem that apparently nobody else has ever had and when I try to
explain it, it just makes people think I'm making it up or stupid. This
group is my last resort so here goes:
Sometimes random links/urls won't show up for me when someone posts, and
they won't show up even in 3 different browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer,
Netscape). It does this for no reason.
There will just be a big blank space where the link was posted and even when
I go to "view source" (ctrl + U) the url is not there. It's like the
link/url never existed, but everyone else can see it. This happened to me
yesterday and I tried rebooting my computer, shutting down my firewall,
closing and restarting my browser. I evem tried to close down my entire
security system (Norton), but I couldn't figure out how.
Example: Say it was www.google.com that wasn't showing up, and someone
posted "I went to Google and looked it up", with the word Google linking to
the site, I will see "I went to and looked it up". A blank space between
the words "to" and "and". No link and even the word Google wouldn't show
up.
And when I do ctrl+U, and go to where it is supposed to be, it will still
say "I went to and looked it up".
And the thing is, it only happens randomly. This link I can't see is on a
webpage and everything else on the webpage will show up except that.
This time, a webpage link was posted on a message forum and I initially
thought the original poster had left the url out, but when I went to reply
and quoted her post, the url showed up in the text box but not in my post.
It quickly became clear that I am the ONLY person on the forum who can't see
this url. I copied the url out of the text box and pasted it into my
browser and got a blank page. I also figured out that if I remove http AND
www and post the url or post the whole thing as text-only, I can get the url
to show up but it just will not show up in link form, and for absolutely no
reason at all. Also, if I am able to get the actual url and copy and paste
in the browser, I get a completely blank page.
And yesterday on the forum I made actual screen caps of my monitor and
posted them on the forum, with BIG RED ARROWS drawn on them pointing out the
black spaces and where the link was supposed to be and how there was nothing
there and yet the few responses I got were "the link is in so-and-so thread"
and people linking directly to the post saying that I need to look there,
making it clear that they either did not bother reading my post or didn't
understand it. I know where the url is, it just doesn't show up for me no
matter what I do! I actually spelled it out for them with pictures and
narration and they still don't get it!
I also tried e-mailing the url to myself to see if it will show up. It
showed up on my ISP mail (Outlook Express) but not Gmail. And I've tried
posting it on other forums and it doesn't show up there either, but everyone
else can see it.
This is happening more and more, it is driving me crazy, and I'm getting
sick and tired of being treated like an imbecile who doesn't really have a
problem so I hope someone can help me with this.
Thanks in advance.
--
Let the dog out to e-mail me.
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