Cookies - where have they gone
 

Just logged into the site and the screen has reverted to a very basic mode. What's happened? Could it be these 'cookies' we all talk about? It just seems to be happening to this site. Has it been re-written using some other software?

Thank goodness, I thought Mrs WWW had broken the pc again

It's been a bit of a problem since Friday, but if you clear your cache and cookies, (run CCleaner if you have it), then return to the site all will be fixed!

or indeed press ctrl + F5 if using internet explorer or ctrl + r if using firefox....

Huh? Someone mentioned cookies .... is it that time of the afternoon already? Tea white non with mine please - I'm the one in the corner sitting by the pile of sand.

Some changes have been made that have affected a few people, perhaps quite a lot! Sadly it was done without letting most people know - including some of the mods.

The url to use now is www.pprune.org not as before org/forums.

Also, if some style and colour is missing the 'trick' is to use Ctrl + F5 together and this will refresh the pages for you. It has worked well for many so far.

Another tip might be to empty your cache/ temp files and cookies. The latter reset themselves but its a personal choice.

Onward and upward! :rolleyes: Hope it helps anyway.

Worked a treat. Ta

well you learn something new every day. TVM:ok:

Well at least the question is now answered. I observed the lack of form directly after the computer told me that I had been automatically "updated". I was cursing Microsoft.

By the way I suspect that the "cookies"* were all done away with after the cessation of hostilities in 1945.

*
Blockbuster or cookie was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term Blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire city block.