I haven't noticed any weirdness lately with this Forum on any of my devices, running a variety of flavors of Android or Windows. What are you using for a machine and browser? Windows 10 (and possibly other versions) has been pushing out an update to users. Maybe some digital flotsam's gumming up your specific machine? I assume you've tried rebooting it?
It's almost 10:30 the 13th here in RI and I've spent an hour here and there since I first posted trying to figure out what happened.
First off, I've been using my first ACER Aspire with Windows 7 Home Premium since 2012. After getting it I also used my PC with Windows XP for another year before throwing it all off my 2nd floor deck onto the driveway, smashing it further with my 4 pound harley hammer and then taking the pieces to the dump. The 2012 laptop has been more or less totally satisfactory once I wrenched needed control from Windows and made it do what I! wanted it to do. Oh, and I use Mozilla Firefox and this is being written on the 2012 ACER which now has the same problem as described originally.
Secondly I HATE Windows (I go back to the days of making boxes of punch cards to feed into the main frame in the university admin building basement to create one small graph, then COBOL, RAMIS, Fortran, Apple IIes and floppy discs) and I swore I would never get another computer that had Windows. Remember early '80s FIDOnet?
So in 2017, what did I do? Yup. I got a new ACER with Windows 10. Dummy!! I hated 10 from the beginning and hated Google Chrome even more. Windows 10 seemed to INSIST I use Google Chrome and fought me at every turn when I tried to get my old little Google search window back. Never succeeded. Windows 10 makes you use the browser address window as your search window.
Windows 10 also FORCES you to allow Windows Updates. You cannot do ANYthing until you allow the Update. And then you have to go in and reset some of your settings because Windows has gone and put them BACK to what you DID NOT WANT!
This happened the night of DST so that might have something to do with it. Windows must have done an Update at the same time. BOTH computers were effected.
If I click on Reply (not Quote) I can then Scroll down to the message with one long sentence into infinity to the right and click on Insert Quote. After clicking Insert Quote I can then see the message in total in the way it was written (IOW in normal paragraph form) but ONLY if I click on Reply.
ALL the avatars are gone. Paragraphs are one long sentence with no way to get to the end so Quote does not appear on those messages because I can't get far enough to the right. On messages with single or multiple short sentences all is well.
And on the 2017 ACER, I no longer have to Login to get permission to answer messages. On the 2012 I do.
I'm not writing this expecting any solutions. Just ranting. I made my living using technology for 30 years. Now I hate it. I really want to live at the end of thirty (30) miles of bad road with no electricity, a 1950s pickup and a dog, but I can't escape the house and property I've put 30 years of my life into and is at the end of ONE HALF mile of bad road and only has 4 houses on it all 4 owned by just me and one other lady who is the best neighbor in the world. We see each other about once a month and she does not "drop in to visit" or ask to borrow my lawn mower, but we are the best of friends :) :)(http://)
As long as I can one way or another read and answer what I want to read and answer I'm good to go. Maybe I'll figure out what's going on some day. That goes for all the rest of this insane world also. It seems that the lunatics have finally wrenched all control of the asylum away from those who still have half a brain.
Before it follows the desktop out the window, just for shits and giggles, why not try some distro of Linux like Ubuntu on that old 2012 laptop, and see how you like it? It's a freebie download that sometimes gives elderly hardware a new lease on life and contains minimal bullshit. You can install it alongside Windows just to check it out.
tooseevee,
Have you tried another browser such as Googles Chrome?
Grant
Your old lap top might have enough disk space to run Windows 7 AND a user-friendly Linux installation.
A.
Download the Opera browser?
A.
You could try a fresh installation of Firefox, if, like me, that's the browser you prefer. I've had to do that more than just a few times to flush out the goobs, especially on my "system managed" rigs at work. If there are bookmarks you wish to keep, just export them first as a single file named like <bookmarks.htm> (I think that's the default name given under Firefox' Bookmarks-->Export menu), save that somewhere on your drive. Next, uninstall Firefox from Control Panel-->Programs. Fire up Explorer or Chrome or whatever other browser remains, head over to getfirefox.com, download and install the browser. When you first run it, it should ask you if you want it to be your default browser. Choose yes, and the other browsers should henceforth leave you be. Oftentimes the old bookmarks will just reappear by themselves. If not, just browse to your saved <bookmarks.htm> file and bookmark that. Presto!
Like I said, I've done this Firefox refresh many many times, both for myself and for coworkers, chiefly to override our network-preferred Windows Explorer browser, since it measurably ran like iced molasses on some of the online databases we used for research. Eventually the network admins cooked up a special dispensation for our department to run Firefox.
Anyhow, that might expel your text-handling gremlins and reel back your margins from the far horizons, Tooseevee. The whole process takes only minutes.
That's semi-baffling--Might it be some persistent garbled text formatting preferences data in a cookie left on your machine by this site? Try deleting cookies by going to about:preferences#privacy in Firefox (cut-n-paste blue text into address line and hit <Enter>), and under "Cookies and Site Data" click <Clear Data>, Restart machine, and as they say in the Haynes manuals, "observe effect on performance".
[...Snip!]. I'm all set, it works for me and I ain't a'marchin' any more to figger it out (as Phil said). I will not worry it to death any longer.
Well, it can't hurt to try the bell! Should be there by tomorrow or maybe Friday.
Bell not here yet, maybe today. Do you have any ideas what I might look into about this Login glitch? Everything is perfect if I'm not logged in. As soon as I Login it all goes to shite.
Maybe I should go to our local computer genius shop? They're all grown ups now who were hacking ATMs back in the '80s when they were 13 :) :)(http://) It must be something to do with how my Firefox connects to this site or vice versa.