Blank page problem

Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:02 am

When browsing sites, I get blank pages from time to time, and I have to refresh the page (resending POSTDATA) to display the page. How do I fix this?

I'm using Mozilla Firefox by the way. Thanks in advance.

Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:20 pm

I get that sometimes too, so it might not be just you, it might be a bug in Firefox.

Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:08 am

firefox unfortunately does that.

Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:55 am

There is no solution to that?

Because if I do resend the data, if it's something like an online payment, I might pay twice. If I don't, I wouldn't know whether it's been sent or not...

Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:03 am

843 wrote:There is no solution to that?

Because if I do resend the data, if it's something like an online payment, I might pay twice. If I don't, I wouldn't know whether it's been sent or not...

I'm pretty sure there's no solution to that right now. It may be fixed in a later version of Firefox (hopefully 2.0). All you can do now is basically sit tight and wait.

Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:35 am

This has never happened to me, and I have been using firefox for years. Is there any possibility of this being from an extension?

Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:30 am

unclekyky wrote:This has never happened to me, and I have been using firefox for years. Is there any possibility of this being from an extension?

That might be possible, although I don't know what extension would do that. (to compare, I have DownThemAll!, Fasterfox, Forecastfox, PDF Download, StumbleUpon, Tabbrowser Preferences, Web Developer, and IE Tab.)

Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:53 am

I have all those except Forecast Fox, StumbleUpon, and Web Developer

Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:04 pm

I use Adblock, IE tab, SessionSaver, Web Developer, SearchStatus, HTML Validator (i highly recommend this one), Tabbrowser preferences, Anonymouser, Flashblock, Greasemonkey, OperaView, Right-Click-Link, and Google Suggest.

Dang I never realised I had so many. Anyway, It could be that the server (or your connection) gives up on the request half-way through.

How often does this occur?

Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:15 pm

unclekyky wrote:Anyway, It could be that the server (or your connection) gives up on the request half-way through.

I was thinking along those lines too, it could be your ISP too. I was having strange problems like that too... pages just wouldn't load, and I'd have to refresh a number of times before they appeared. I think the problem stopped when I changed ISPs.

The thing is, it was happening in Internet Explorer as well. I was also having problems downloading emails. Is this a Firefox-only problem, or have you tried using in Internet Explorer recently?