Happening to anyone else?

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OK, well this has been going on for a little while now, probably the last 2 weeks. First, my smileys are all mixed up. The 15 smileys on the right while making a post, if I click on : sly : for example, I will usually get some nonsensical smiley when I post instead. Now recently, avatars on pages are all over the place. Some members will have 2 avatars under their name, their own and then some other random one from another member directly under it. I captured this just a few minutes ago, sorry for low quality. Is this happening to anyone else?

EDIT - Notice how my avatar is above my post, and instead :dopey: is my avatar. :odd: Also, when I edited this post, I had to click on :) instead of "Edit" as :) has taken it's spot.

EDIT II - Those firestarter smilies are from me typing in ": )". And the : mad : smiley, is from me typing : dopey :. W-T-F?
 

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Ummm...wow. OK, this is a really bizarre problem. Everything looks OK to me, but I'm at a complete loss as to what would cause something like that. Is anyone else experiencing anything similar?
 
I've certainly not seen anything like that before.

I would suggest that if it happens to Saleen Man again, he take another screenshot, and then dump out the source code. These should both then be attached to another post (with the source code as a .txt file).

Jordan (or someone else) could then compare the source with the display, and see if it's a browser problem. Also, a detailed look at the source could confirm whether there's some form of layout sequencing problem at the server end.

It could just be that Saleen Man's cache is borked...
 
I've seen this before, but not here.. it was on another forum that also runs vBulletin 3.0.7. My guess is some sort of glitch in the vB code, that probably works in conjunction with the browser and user's system to create the problem (which would make it very difficult to track down for the programmers).
 
It looks fine using Lite.

edit: And using Default. Maybe it's Firefox messing it up.
 
I just had a moment with the forums! On Firefox, using XP... I reloaded one page and it came out without graphics? (should've taken a screenshot)

And the stylesheets were all weird... the text colors were different... I thought that I had accidentally uploaded a girl's forum by mistake. When I refreshed, though, it all went back to normal. This has never happened before... :odd:
 
OK. So when I said "Those firestarter smileys", you guys don't actually see them do you?

GilesGuthrie - Could you please explain how to dump out the source code? This happens every day now. Also, I'm not sure of the meaning of "borked", but I clear all my internet information - history, cookies, cache - every night.
 
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GilesGuthrie - Could you please explain how to dump out the source code? This happens every day now. Also, I'm not sure of the meaning of "borked", but I clear all my internet information - history, cookies, cache - every night.
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Sure. In Mozilla, click File, then Save Page As. Choose "Text Files" from the drop-down at the bottom. Attach the text file to a post, along with a screenshot of the page.

Borked (Warning: Strong Language)

Clearing your cache every day? Wow! Jordan's bandwidth accountant must love you!
 
Here, I hope this is everything you need. The screenshot is what pretty much every page I view looks like lately. I believe that is Max E.'s avatar in my post. It's in almost every post, like it has taken the place of the "New!" symbol indicating a new post.

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EDIT - My avatar shows up in posts from members who have a link to their homepage.
 

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That source code is really weird. It does at least seem to indicate that all of the key elements on the page are coming to the browser in the correct order.
 
Thanks Saleen, but that's definitely not the source code. In Firefox, go to "View" > "Page Source", then save that file as a TXT and attach it.
 
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion/msg/1c81cdd449c7767

The problem seems to be here:

"function SymError()
{
return true;
}

window.onerror = SymError;

var SymRealWinOpen = window.open;

function SymWinOpen(url, name, attributes)
{
return (new Object());
}

window.open = SymWinOpen;"

It looks like it's Norton Internet Security at fault here. Temporarily disable it, then clear out your cache/cookies and refresh the page (or, alternatively, hold Ctrl and press F5).
 
May I also suggest that you capture the source from a small thread i.e. one with only 3 or 4 replies. So that there is less repetition of code and the error will be easier to spot.
 
Good investigating, amp! That's where I'd point the finger as well, but I can't tell for sure without a screenshot of the errors on the page so I can see exactly what is out of place. Nevertheless, try disabling Norton and see what happens.
 
My computer sucks. I ended up formatting this weekend, and now all the forums look fine. Everything is back to normal. For now. I still have Norton installed, so I guess I'll just wait and see if it causes problems again. Thanks for the help all.
 

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