Yes, I get the message about failing to connect all the time but my computer does not freeze up. That does sound as if there is something else going on.
Usually I do not get the message on a primary contact. IOW when I open AD from my homepage it usually works fine. I can pick a message, type a reply and have it go through without issue.
It is the "secondary" contact that causes the problem. For example: I'll open a thread, hit reply, type up a comment and then look to add a citation to another site, usually a news site. Then, I will preview the story, select the news url I have just posted, and copy a headline or comment from the story and come back to quote it on AD. This normally works fine. It is when I then go to submit the completed post that I get the error message that Phae mentions and I would say that happens half the time. I don't have a clue why it works the other half of the time. In most cases I select the entire post, copy it, and back out all the way to the homepage. Then I go back in, find the thread, paste the reply and hit submit and it goes through. Here's the kicker. In about 25% of the cases I find that the post that it told me did not go through is already there!
I'm way above my pay grade here but I have wondered if it doesn't have something to do with the various pay walls or adblock / anti-adblock software that a lot of these sites use. I'll leave that speculation to the experts. With Chrome, if I get that message it is usually because the site is down and FF does not work either. I should probably start using Chrome more.
Usually I do not get the message on a primary contact. IOW when I open AD from my homepage it usually works fine. I can pick a message, type a reply and have it go through without issue.
It is the "secondary" contact that causes the problem. For example: I'll open a thread, hit reply, type up a comment and then look to add a citation to another site, usually a news site. Then, I will preview the story, select the news url I have just posted, and copy a headline or comment from the story and come back to quote it on AD. This normally works fine. It is when I then go to submit the completed post that I get the error message that Phae mentions and I would say that happens half the time. I don't have a clue why it works the other half of the time. In most cases I select the entire post, copy it, and back out all the way to the homepage. Then I go back in, find the thread, paste the reply and hit submit and it goes through. Here's the kicker. In about 25% of the cases I find that the post that it told me did not go through is already there!
I'm way above my pay grade here but I have wondered if it doesn't have something to do with the various pay walls or adblock / anti-adblock software that a lot of these sites use. I'll leave that speculation to the experts. With Chrome, if I get that message it is usually because the site is down and FF does not work either. I should probably start using Chrome more.
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