Problems with freezeup when going to gaia.online

[gomer309]

Using a Dell Dimension 8400, Windows XP Service Pack 3, all updates and anti-virus,
etc, are up-to-date.   May take a few to explain this problem.

My wife, under her own account, goes to gaia.online to play games.  Recently (about a week or so) she told me a game called word bump didn't work, i looked at it and
it said server wasn't working or something to that effect.  Once she's gone from that website and tries to back to  her homepage, the site is moved to the homepage but nothing displays, just a blank white screen, and then IE stops responding, i have to restart to get things working again.  This was before SP3 was installed

Yesterday after SP3 was downloaded, installed, restarted, etc.  I went to same web
site under my account, got to word bump, played a game as guest and quit, and when i went to close IE, system would not respond, i had to end things through task manager, and then restart to get things working again.   

This is best as i can explain it, hope it's enough.   No i have not tried FireFox cuz i don't have it installed.

Any insight is appreciated.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I would check to see if the same happens with Firefox.
(you can uninstall it later if you want)

[gomer309]

Okay, i'll try and give firefox a try.  Be a few days (it's the labor day weekend ya know).  I'll get back to you, thanks for the input.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

All right. 

[gomer309]

Okay, i downloaded/installed firefox and the gaia.online games seem to be
working.  haven't experienced any freeze ups or anything like that, so one
must assume the problem is with IE7.

i'm guess either a reset defaults or uninstall/reinstall type approach but i'll
wait to hear from you.

i'm still learning about mozilla.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Try clearing your Temporary Files and Cookies.

Download CCleaner and Install it.
When you run it, make sure Temporary Files and Cookies under Internet Explorer are checked and Temporary Files under System are checked (uncheck everything else) and run the cleaner.
Then try again.

[GEN12]

I used to go to that site all the time.  Gaia Online is extremely glitchy.  It is most likely just the website.  I remember when Word Bump wouldn't give anybody gold.

[Broni]

gomer309

Close IE.
Go Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools, and click on Internet Explorer (no add-ons)
Visit your game site, and see, if same thing will happen.

[gomer309]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, i will give them all a try.  I run CC Cleaner on a reg  basis, and
i'll also give Broni's suggestion a try.  Never thought about that, cuz i'm really not to familiar with addons
and those type of things.  I thought it might be the website but i wasn't sure so it's always a good idea
to ask.

Once again, this forum has been a big help to me.  I have never had firefox before but i will be using it for a while anyways, it seems to load pages faster than my IE7 did.  Has a different look and there is a lot of information about addons and things i need to research, but overall i was happy.  Now i can see why you guys refer to firefox a lot.

Thanks again.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

The Magic of Firefox.

So are you planning on keeping with FireFox then?

[gomer309]

I run CC Cleaner regularly, and have done so again.

Ref IE7 w/o add on.  I went there, it told me to install flash player, which i tried,but for reason wouldnt install (i didn't have any problems installing it w/Flash), i was probably doing something wrong.

I went to gaia in IE7 and it worked just fine, so i'm thinking after all this, it is probably the website and it has issues. 

As for FF, yeah, i'm gonna run it for awhile.  it's a different look and feel, and although i haven't figured out what addon's i might need or want, it seems to be working just fine so i'll keep it.

Thanks again for all the feedback and advice.  I've been to a lot of forums, i find this one to be the most helpful.

Thanks, gomer.

[Broni]

I've been to a lot of forums, i find this one to be the most helpful.

Come by anytime

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Personally, I think Firefox is much better (and faster) than IE.