GOOGLE CHROME doesn't quite work with the OGRR website.

Try uninstall and reinstall GC

Hey Alan,

I have been using GC for last three months, since I bought a new home PC, and have not had any of the problems you describe.  I am on the OGR online forum quite a bit and have not had any problems with GC there or any other sites.  You might want to check your settings for GC and make sure that everything is set-up to your liking.  Click on the little wrench in the upper right hand corner and take a look at your settings.

Jim

I have Chrome as well with no issues on this site.

No problems with Firefox, just use the Adblock plus ad/ popup blocker.

I have been using Chrome as my main browser for a long time too and have not noticed the problems with the pull downs you describe.  I agree that the pull downs should always be on top.  Can you post a link to the page with the problem so I can try to duplicate it?  Thanks.

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Brought this up a few months ago. All I got was how terrible IE was or is, and I should just install FireFox and life would be wonderful! Well that's not going to happen for many reasons. I now just have the forum page in my favorites and ignore the OGR home page. I go there periodically to see whats up but not too often.

That has actually been a big with various browser wince the beta testing days, not sure why it reemerged. Safari and IE seemed to have the biggest problem with it

Is, and go for Chrome if you ever decide to update your browser. It's just plain faster and safer than IE.

I use and love google Chrome and have no issues with OGR.

No issues here with GC.

Firefox is slow? Since when? I use Firefox and it is lightning fast for me. Has been for years.

As for Google Chrome, it is indeed fast...a little faster than Firefox. I used it for a while, until I learned a little more about it. What I learned was that the Google Chrome browser tracks every web site you visit and sends that information back to Google. This happens in the background, and you never know it. That was enough for me. No more Chrome...no matter how fast it might be. I'm back with Firefox and will stay with it.

Alan, if Firefox was running slow, AND Google Chrome doesn't work right, I think you need a Java update. Google Chrome did NOT behave the way yours is on my machine.

This site uses a lot of Javascript. Update your Java and I think you'll find these issues go away.

95% of websites do this,even this one to a degree. 

THIS SITE DOES NOT SET TRACKING COOKIES! We use cookies to save login information, so you don't have to enter your user name and password every time you visit. There is a huge difference between that and a tracking cookie.

As for other sites, some do set tracking cookies, but only if you let them! I don't allow web sites to set cookies on my computer unless absolutely necessary for login information, etc. I have a choice as to whether I will allow a given web site to set cookies on my machine.

With Google Chrome you have NO CHOICE. And it is not just a single WEB SITE that is doing the tracking of visits to their own site. With Google Chrome it is the BROWSER ITSELF doing the tracking. And it is tracking and logging EVERY SITE you visit.

Sorry...that is way too much of an invasion of my privacy to tolerate.

It's perfectly understandable and most would probably feel a bit uncomfortable with that,and your right Hoopla currently wont plant a tracking cookie but it does store alot of your information.

"When you sign up for any account or service operated by Social Strata, we store all information that you provide to us. This may include personal information like email addresses, your name, passwords, phone numbers, birth date, gender, and address information. For services that require payment, we also collect credit card information, which is stored in encrypted form on secure servers, including PCI-compliant third-party vendors. Once you register and sign in to one of our services, you are not anonymous to us. In addition, we collect and store information based on the services that you are using. For instance, we may store the names of communities that you join, the people that you mark as your buddies, content that you watch, etc."

"Visit Information Via Server Logs

Social Strata records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and page request."

They do just about everything google does except they don't follow you when you leave, but everything before that is logged and stored forever.

Kevin, you are missing my point. Literally EVERY web site where you have to log in with a user name and password stores the information listed above. It could be here, Amazon.com, your favorite hobby shop's web store...ANY SITE where you have to establish an account in order to log in or purchase something, will store the information you showed above. They have to...that's how the site knows whether you have an account or not!

Social Strata tracks pages visited HERE, within this ONE web site, in order to evaluate server loads and properly allocate resources to keep server performance where it should be. Again, there is nothing unusual about that.

All that has absolutely nothing to do with a TRACKING COOKIE! A Tracking Cookie is a tiny program on your computer that reports the web address of EVERY WEB PAGE YOU VISIT back to headquarters, in this case, Google. Every time you click a web page here, every time you visit any of your other favorite web sites, the web addresses for those sites are being reported back to Google, along with your IP address, etc. And you cannot prevent that from happening, as you can with other browsers.

That is totally different from simply storing login and account information in order to validate your account with a web server.