Guru Needed

[stoutfellow]

Okay, this is getting irritating.

There are a couple of webcomics I follow - or try to follow - on the www.moderntales.com site. For the last I-don't-know-how-long, I've been having trouble accessing that site. Here are the details.

When I check it from the office computer, using IE, I generally have no difficulty. Going in from home, using Firefox, I get a timeout notice. Going in from home using IE sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. This afternoon, I went in with IE and reached the site. Then (without closing IE) I opened Firefox and tried again; this time I got through. I closed both, cleaned up with AdSubtract, and reopened Firefox: timeout again.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this strange behavior?

Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Warning: not a guru. I saw this last night and waited, hoping one would show up.

However, I notice similar differences between Firefox and IE in that Firefox will give up earlier than IE - shorter timeout?

I also note that this started happening this summer (around the time my ISP did an upgrade). I am wondering if the DNS service used has anything to do with it. That might explain the difference between work and home.

Just guesses.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I've been poking around, trying without success to find a way to adjust the timeout.

However, this morning Firefox auto-updated; since then, I've checked that site several times and gotten in every time. I conclude that, whatever was going on, enough other sites and other users were being affected that TPTB took notice and corrected it. At least I hope that's what's happened.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

hmm. So, I updated from 1.5 to 2.0, and, so far, things are much better. Thanks for the tip!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Mine is still 1.5 - specifically, 1.5.0.10. The problem has not recurred, though. What differences do you see between 1.5 and 2.0?