Thanks for asking for me and letting me know to post
the answer. I'll repeat what I gave you here for the
sake of future readers:
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You may not want to fix it. If I'm understanding you correctly,
you're saying that the desired story or item is appearing in
full, and that there's just a portion of the page that is
showing up blank, or whited out, with the error message, "This
page cannot be displayed, etc".
I use a technique for blocking unwanted ads on news sites such
as this, involving the use of the HOSTS file. You can read more
about this by looking at that section of my answer on Bulletproof
security for computers, here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=568868
A little more than halfway down, read the section and explore
the links on the 'HOSTS file'.
When I use this technique to block certain advertising servers,
I will see the phenomenon you describe, in which the blocked
ad sites deliver the "page cannot be displayed" message, as
though they were separate web pages contained within the main
page, which, in a sense, they are.
Clicking on a link in Outlook Express (OE) is no different
than clicking on a link in a browser window. The source of
the link will have no impact on how well it loads.
It's quite possible that, for whatever reason, these are
simply ads that are not showing. The ad servers could be
down, or you may have a customized HOSTS file (though how
that would come to be without your knowledge, I can't say).
However, in spite of active ad-blocking, when I visit the
Edmunds site, there are no sections whited out, missing,
or failing to load, so this makes me wonder.
Another possibility is that your network connection is
flakey, so that part of the page is loading, and part
is not.
I'd recommend testing the speed of your connection during
times when you experience these glitches, and seeing if
your download speed matches the advertised speed of the
interet connection you're subscribing to.
Two good sites for testing your connection speed are:
Cox Las Vegas (very reliable, for me):
http://test.lvcm.com/
DSL Reports speed tests:
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
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The numbers you posted are excellent. Now you've got ME
curious, since the scale at lvcm.com only goes up to 5Mbps.
Did the graphics change scale, or just peg out at the top?
So it's not your download speed, and it may just be that
the ad servers are down for some reason.
Best regards, and happy holidays...
sublime1-ga |
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